I assume he made a FULL recovery
Nothing wrong with eating potatoes every day, Europe owes a lot to the potatoes, see what happened in Ireland in 1845/49 when the harvests failed .
Even tulip bulbs were eaten by the Dutch in times of famineThis happened 16 years ago, and makes no mention of his bloodwork aside from basic cholesterol stuff. Would like to see a little more balanced information on the negative impacts of this. Clearly you can’t live on only potatoes forever.
Even Mark Watney supplemented with a multivitamin (and vicodin).
If you drink milk, and yeah, a multivitamin, you’re good to go. Pretty much covers all your body needs. I’ve been doing it for almost 2 years. No issues, and my bloods came out fine at my health checkup.
In the 18th and early 19th centuries, (before the Great Famine) lots rural Irish families lived for decades on a diet that was overwhelmingly potatoes + buttermilk/milk. They often ate 5–8+ pounds of potatoes per day. This diet was credited with keeping them relatively healthy and producing tall, strong men (many Irish were prized as soldiers/recruits partly because of it).
I’ve read about other people doing this in the past. There was a study by a guy back in 1912, Dr. Mikkel Hindhede who wanted to prove that a very simple diet could keep a person perfectly healthy.
One of his laboratory assistants, Frederik Madsen, volunteered for the experiment. For an entire year, Madsen ate nothing but potatoes and milk (sometimes described as potatoes + buttermilk or potatoes + a little fat). He stayed totally healthy the whole time, with no deficiencies, full energy, and perfect physical condition.
Also, I have personal knowledge of this style of eating. Because I do almost same thing. Six days a week, I only eat potatoes and milk. On saturdays I eat beans, rice, and corn tortillas. (I was inspired by the Hindhede study, by the way)
I’ve done it for almost 2 years and no issues at all. I did it mostly for savings, since I wanted to cut my budget really low, so I could hurry up and pay off my house (which I had already been working on paying off by working overtime and side jobs.)
It worked. I paid off my house last year. Now no mortgage at all. :)
And I work out every day, and last medical check up showed that I’m ideal weight, ideal health, no issues at all.
After reading how many Lemmy posters are overweight, um, I think a lot of people should try the potatoes only thing. It sucks for first 2 weeks, but then your body adjusts tho.
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