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Today in the most shocking Smarter Healthy Living episode ever, we're talking about why potatoes are bad for you.
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You're listening to the Smarter Healthy Living podcast where we firmly believe that getting healthy should never feel like torture. We're your host, Jared and Anita Roussel were college sweethearts, and health professionals who help you redefine what getting healthy looks like using a whole food plant based lifestyle. It's time to hear from the experts and learn the best tips and tricks that helped others get beyond the overwhelm, to create a vibrant life they love. If you're sick and tired of being sick, and tired, you're in the right place. So pull up a virtual chair, grab your matcha latte, and let's get started.
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Inflammation. Odds are it's affecting you more than you even realize. Did you know that inflammation has been linked to so many age related sicknesses and major chronic illnesses, things like heart disease, type two diabetes, or Alzheimer's disease, and many types of cancer with me, my arms ached all the time. My legs ache all the time. arthritis is inflammation when you hear the word, the ending itis on a word it means inflammation. Have you been affected? odds are you have those aches and pains that you have. That can be inflammation.
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Well, did you know that potatoes can be one of the big culprits behind inflammation? Why are potatoes bad for you? What do you think?
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Because of what we do to them? What we put on them how we personally are them?
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Yeah, think about the last time you ate a potato. How did you eat it? Was it fried and attentive Greece and it made a french fry or a potato chip?
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Was it baked potato with tons and tons of butter and sour cream?
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I used to love that these bacon bits. So surely, if you go healthy, plant based or vegan, even especially vegan, right?
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You're gonna then put vegan butter and vegan sour cream and vegan cheese on there. And guess what?
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That has to be better for you, right? No, not necessarily, well, you're getting
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a ton of holes in those things. And those are inflammatory. And the truth is potatoes by nature are anti inflammatory. They're all kinds of colors, all kinds of ways to eat potatoes, but they are by nature anti inflammatory, so they're gonna fight the inflammation if you don't pile all the mess on top of them. But we like them with something on there. Right? What what so can something
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pretty much the potatoes an innocent bystander is kind of like you're standing in line at the bank. You've got this car that pulls up, a bunch of bank robbers come out, they shoot up the bank, steal the money and they leave. And then you're just standing there saying what's going on. I'm just waiting to get some money out of my account, the cops come and arrest you. The potato is innocent bystanders of all the stuff that's on and people say potatoes are bad for you can have the potatoes is going to shoot up your insulin is going to I'm sorry, your blood sugar levels is going to do all these bad things. whenever it's actually not the potato. The potato was just there. It's all the things that we do it the
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potato is just at the bank.
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It was just at the bank minding its own business.
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Okay, I like that story.
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actually never heard that
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one before I just came up with.
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Oh, anyway, we think about eating potatoes. And we think about adding all this great stuff. Now I'm one that loves sauces. If you've known me for any time, you know how much I love good sauces, so I've got to have something on my potato.
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And you know, we found ways to top it that we like even better than before. What are some of your favorite ways cared?
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I have liked adding hot sauce to it.
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Just plain hot sauce do anything else with it?
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Well, we will put a like a ranch type dressing that you make that you make from a baby.
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I didn't know
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if you actually added that or not. Or if you're just into hot sauce. Now because we change a lot what we do, we don't always do the same thing.
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I mean, honestly, you could ask me what I did last month. And this meant and what I like tomato potato best and it would probably change somewhat. So you don't need just plain hot sauce.
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No, but we'll do the ranch sauce just so that it's not quite as dry. And then we'll put a little crack pepper, a little bit of salt, put some hot sauce on it and then just mix it all together. And it gives a great flavor.
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Yeah, he's referring to our write. I've written a cookbook, and we haven't released it quite yet unless you're listening to this episode down the road, but it's getting ready to come out right now.
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We're really excited about it.
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And in there I have some great tasting sauces and things as well. And one of those is the ranch dressing and so we like to drizzle a little bit of that on there. And then we put the hot sauce like Jared said, and I'm like a little ketchup with that.
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That's like my trifecta of perfection for my potato right now for trifection may sound a little too much like infection I'm not real sure there but anyway, yeah. trifecta of perfection. Okay, so that's a trifection.
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Yes.
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And you're sticking with it? Well, well that's how I like mine. So I'll pit a little bit of the ranch a little of the ketchup and a little bit of the hot sauce. Now you think the ketchup? It sounds kind of strange, but it just all works so great together. You think the ketchup though is kind of weird, right? I think people put ketchup on things. I thought it was kind of weird. But we use the ketchup the doesn't have much sugar in it. There's, well what do we normally eat on our French fries?
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Exactly. Ketchup.
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Yeah. And so that's what makes it taste so good. It really does taste like a french fry. No, you're not gonna take it and squirt a whole bottle of ketchup and cover your potato.
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It takes very, very little I'm talking like less than a teaspoon on an entire potato.
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And it just gives a really great flavor. It's much like a french fry, you could just do that with just a little sprinkle of pink salt. If you eat salt. If you don't, don't add it, it's fine.
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Now we do like the butter potatoes, the more gold or yellow potatoes that gives you that natural butteryflavor
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It naturally has it in there.
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Yes, you don't even have to have the better. I mean, they're already naturally better yet as it is some other ways that we like to eat potatoes.
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And one thing I did want to add before we move on to that though, is we like to get the skin whenever possible. Now, that backfired on us a little bit at one point. Do you remember when we used to eat out and we would get potatoes at this restaurant?
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Oh yes, there was one restaurant where we thought we were doing better and they would wrap it in foil. But we didn't realize this until many months later that they were actually covering it in bacon grease,
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slathering it in lard pork fat and had no idea and here we are not eating animal products when we go out and we do the right thing. And we have our nice little baked potato and we had our little whole food plant based meal that was slathered in pork fat. So if you're any potato out sick and hurt to ask if you're eating out of the restaurant, hey, is there anything put on the outside of the skin of the potato?
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Especially if you want to eat the skin?
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simply tell them we don't eat any animal products?
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Are there any animal products used in what I'm wearing? Yeah, and you might be surprised sometimes like we were with that one.
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The servers don't mind you asking them though they really don't unless you have 20 million different picky questions about each little thing. They really don't mind something like Hey, could you find out for me if this potato has anything on the outside on the skin of it or whatever, and they could check on that for you. And if
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you have a million questions, just be sure to tip them well.
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That's a good insider secret for sure. I like that one. Um, but yeah, so we were eating lard on it and didn't know so do ask. And then another way we really like them is hummus on our potato and a hummus can have a lot of oil and other added ingredients. So check that and just make sure that you get one that doesn't have a lot of added oil or natural flavors, things like that. You want to just get things mostly with the garbanzo bean or chickpea in it. It's really easy to make it home if you have a blender or food processor, you just put in it what you like you think of the flavors you like and you add those in there. So I just whiz up some in the food processor and I'll drop the drop those garbanzo beans in there and I like to add roasted red peppers or an Add to add a little tahini. Well the tahini gives it that flavor like give some natural oil to it anyway so why do you want to go pouring a ton of oil and one thing I do when I take I even open up my nut butter sometimes is a pour off of the old settle to the top I'll pour off some before I actually start it in. If you really want to decrease your oil that's one way you can do it.
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Particularly if you drop that into your hemisphere getting back to potatoes. We like to put hummus on our potatoes now you can slice them very small dice them up like you're doing a little like a country style hash round they're diced in chunks and you can stir them in hummus.
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You can thin it with a little water if you want to so it doesn't go dry before your potatoes are done so you thin it out a little bit. Stir the potatoes and give them a light coating. Pour them out on parchment paper or a silpat mat.
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Bake them till they're done. It makes this coating it's almost like the french fries that you get that are coated or battered
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right
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you know what I'm talking about with
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like a batter on a fried chicken type of batter but it just gives it a great flavor.
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They're so good. We love them that way
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that's variety and some extra nutrition there as well.
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And what else what are some other things we
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like this also before on potatoes
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Oh beet black beans and salsa. That's great. And why stop there I mean why not add chili we love to talk potatoes with chili. You could do chili avocado black bean salsa,
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that's a great so long.
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Like if you've done salsa or chili one night then you do the big potatoes with the leftover chili
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live that and pile it up and make you can do a baked potato bar with the with the toppings like that the ones we've just mentioned, that would be great. We add them into soups and stews we make all a goby, I have a recipe for that in the cookbook, it's delicious. It just basically means if you don't know what it is, it means potato, cauliflower. So it's a recipe traditional Indian dish.
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Yeah, it's really good. And I make mine by baking my potatoes and cauliflower adding those in with the sauce, and it's done.
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And then that that's just a really great way to get more potatoes in. But then always remember variety, like we say, look at the variety of color and the variety of potatoes that are available. There are many different kinds. When's the last time you ate a purple potato, sweet potato or just non sweet, get those purples in there, they're wonderful for you anti inflammatory, full of phytonutrients have
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tons of health benefits.
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And that's why you don't want to not have the potatoes. And B, you're looking at a lot of minerals, a lot of vitamins A medium potato has about a fourth of your daily need of vitamin C, vitamin B six. Yeah, a lot of other minerals.
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I don't think about potatoes with vitamin C. I mean, that's not you know, I go to citrus or things. You're getting vitamin C, you're getting fiber, you're getting all these amazing things in there. I mean, the fiber and plant foods, you don't get any fiber in animal products. Did you realize that?
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Zero? Yeah. And fiber is Noni, I think it's 97% is high 90s.
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Right, the high 90 percentile of people in America do not get anywhere near the amount of daily fiber. So it's no wonder that we have the colon cancers in the digestive issues, and now diverticulosis, and all these other things going on in our lives, when we're not getting the fiber we need because the fiber feeds our gut bacteria.
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Exactly
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I was I was gonna touch on that I was, I wanted to say that it's not just about moving the food through you, right?
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It's important for the,
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for the gut bacteria and potatoes are particularly good in that. And you may hear the term resistant starch. And what that means is just that it digests slower than like wood, a white hamburger bond or just your regular refined starches.
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And so what that does is those starches make their way all the way to the end where your bacteria are in it provides them food so that the good ones can grow. Now, this was interesting when I read it, that those bacteria will make a substance called butyrate. And that has a very strong anti inflammatory property to it, which can help heal the gut, but it's also known to help with inflammation throughout the body. Yeah, it's
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amazing if you just get the right fuel in there, what you can do and how you can feel and it's just those things were holding me back for so long, because I didn't know my cells are starving for all these things. And lo and behold, they were around me all the time. I didn't need a medicine. I'm not saying you don't need a medicine. We're not anti medicine. We're both medical professionals, right. But what we do know is a lot of things can be cured at the source or at least prevented, right some things can be cured. I mean, we both had things reverse.
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So we've seen many stories and have clients with things that have been reversed.
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It's amazing what can happen when your body gets what it needs, especially the plant fades all of that from
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the simple humble potato.
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Who knew? Now what about sweet potatoes? We didn't even really touch on those. It wasn't long ago. I mean relatively speaking, of course we're getting a little bit older now but not terribly long ago that we just we discovered or even thought about the fact that when we eat sweet potatoes which we didn't eat as many of the most we should but when we ate more now it was always orange. Why orange? Why are we eating purple sweet potatoes are you eating purple sweet potatoes. If you're not eat some they are delicious.
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You know I saw one girl online and she said you know these are an ultimate fast food I always say that things are ultimate fast food. So I don't know that those were her exact words but she was basically saying that's her grab and go food. That's what she was saying. And but I say the ultimate fast food because you can bake these things or make them and grab them on your way out the door. A potato is one of them.
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Particularly she does this with the purple potato where she holds it and she says I take it like a burrito and it's done and I just eat it skin and all if you don't want the skin you can just kind of peel it and eat it as you go kind of like you would have banana. You don't think about things like that a grab and go potato
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well into that end looking at the white potatoes.
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You might be listening thinking wait I've got to cook it how's that grab and go? Well if you make extra potatoes and then you refrigerate them now there's going to be a look of horror and shock on Anita his face here.
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But if you refrigerate those potatoes you can grab them and the more now I personally love the potatoes when they've been cooked and then refrigerated.
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They have a different flavor that have a little different consistency to them. I absolutely love it. And actually that is a very good source of the resistant starches I was just telling telling you about a moment ago. So they're they're healthy for you. But if you like that sort of thing,
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he's looking at me with caution on his face because he knows I do not, I have never liked a rebate potato. I don't like the flavor. But I promise you that he's right. If you like them like that, if you like a leftover potato, or you can at least wait till they get cold to eat them and then reheat them, they found they found that they actually are healthier for you.
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And not that they're not healthy that other way, they're just healthy, or that way. That's just one of those things for me that I just I love him fluffy and fresh, not hardened and more starchy. But that's probably what makes him more healthy,
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extra 12 year old 12 year old son loves them that way
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he does, they'll just take me for breakfast, they always want me to make extra so they have leftovers. Yeah, so they can just grab them and eat them for breakfast. Now with this sweet potatoes, one thing we like to do is make a little nut butter sauce and drizzle it over them. And then if you're trying not to eat as many nuts, you can just add some cinnamon, cinnamon is a great heart healthy blood pressure lowering spice, it's a great thing to get more of in your life. Add that add nutmeg, there's a lot of different ways you don't really need to add sugars to these things. Because what you'll find is sweet potatoes and vegetables that are sweet will just give you that natural sweetness. And I'll help you start to cut back on the extra sweet things. And before long, it's kind of like when you eat a lot of salt. And you need more salt and more salt and more salt when you start backing off bit by bit if you tasted what you were eating a few weeks before, and you could taste the salt in that you'd say, yeah, that is so salty. But before you ever really perceived it. It's kind of the same way with sweet things. So enjoy your sweet potatoes, especially the purples get the purple sweet and the purple non sweet because what they have found studies show that the purple foods, especially purple potatoes, greatly decrease inflammation.
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So if you're looking to fight some joint pain or inflammation and some other way in any of the other diseases we mentioned in the beginning, do you need more purple in your life, get those purple potatoes in there. So to sum it all up, potatoes are bad for you. Because of what you put on top of them. Find some new healthy toppings for your potato. Try them out. If you don't like the first one, try something else. The possibilities really are almost endless. Try different things.
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Find the one you like or the ones you like. Because odds are they'll be more than one and it'll change over time. And enjoy. We look forward to seeing you again on smarter Healthy Living really soon. Before you leave. Be sure to subscribe and leave us a review. We love to hear what you think and how things are making a difference for you. If you have any questions, send us an email.
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