Sammm wrote:According to Dr. McDougall you can live by eating nothing but potatoes and sweet potatoes but what about the omega 3 fats? What happens when you don't get any of those omega 3 fats that are supposed to be vital for health?
Potatoes have omega-3 fat.
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tnam ... e&dbid=101Sweet potatoes have omega-3 fat.
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tnam ... e&dbid=128A potato diet won't kill you, but most people aren't going to try to live on nothing but potatoes for an extended length of time (years and years), and a diet of only potatoes is not the McDougall diet anyway. The McDougall diet is starch-based with some green/yellow vegetables and fruit. The potato-only diet is an extreme variation. That said, if I could only pick one starch, I'd probably go with potato.