Why Cooling Potatoes Lowers Their Glycemic Load

Why Cooling Potatoes Lowers Their Glycemic Load

If you eat potatoes when they’re cold, as in potato salad, or chilled and reheated, you can get a nearly 40% lower glycemic impact. If you systematically pull together all the best studies on potato consumption and chronic disease risk, an association is found for the...
Explore NutritionFacts.org Resources

Explore NutritionFacts.org Resources

NutritionFacts.org has a wide range of resources to help you on your journey to a healthier life. Primers Learn More Learn More Learn More   The How Not to Die Documentary In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the publication of How Not to Die, the Greenbaum...
Do Potatoes Shorten Your Life?

Do Potatoes Shorten Your Life?

Do potato eaters live longer or shorter lives than non-potato eaters? Is there a link between potato intake and the incidence of hypertension? Harvard researchers followed the diets and diseases of more than 100,000 men and women for decades and found that those who...
Potatoes and Diabetes: It’s Complicated

Potatoes and Diabetes: It’s Complicated

Does the link between white potatoes and diabetes extend to non-fried potatoes without butter or sour cream? The trouble for white potatoes began in 2006, when the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study, which had followed the diets and diseases of tens of thousands of women...
Prunes: Nature’s Answer to Constipation

Prunes: Nature’s Answer to Constipation

Prunes, figs, and exercise are put to the test as natural home remedies for constipation. The act of defecation is very private and the object of cultural taboos, so much so that it’s rarely thought of, even by physicians—but it should be. Constipation accounts for...