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In the film The Martian, Matt Damon’s character, Mark Watney, is stranded on the red planet with nothing to eat but spuds. Now, a 36-year-old Australian is following the same diet, voluntarily.
In an attempt to lose weight and improve his relationship with food, Andrew Taylor has decided to eat nothing but potatoes for a year. But is this approach likely to work, or will he run out of nutrients? And could he have chosen a better single food to live on?
Just over a month into the diet, Taylor posted a photo on Facebook of some unfinished mash potato on his plate. This is a nice illustration of “sensory-specific satiety” – the theory that the pleasure we take in consuming a single food goes down as we eat more of it, so we stop eating so much.
He is probably feeling the benefits of his weight loss (10kg in the first month), with increased energy levels, and already will have reduced his chances of developing diabetes and other chronic conditions. But what will happen in the long term?
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...happen-if-you-only-ate-potatoes-a6880871.html
In an attempt to lose weight and improve his relationship with food, Andrew Taylor has decided to eat nothing but potatoes for a year. But is this approach likely to work, or will he run out of nutrients? And could he have chosen a better single food to live on?
Just over a month into the diet, Taylor posted a photo on Facebook of some unfinished mash potato on his plate. This is a nice illustration of “sensory-specific satiety” – the theory that the pleasure we take in consuming a single food goes down as we eat more of it, so we stop eating so much.
He is probably feeling the benefits of his weight loss (10kg in the first month), with increased energy levels, and already will have reduced his chances of developing diabetes and other chronic conditions. But what will happen in the long term?
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...happen-if-you-only-ate-potatoes-a6880871.html