If you have been around someone who is “on a diet,” most often you will hear them say, “Oh, I can’t eat potatoes.  They are fattening!”

However, I want to refute that claim and say that potatoes do belong on a weight-loss diet.

Potatoes were first cultivated nearly 5,000 years ago by the Indians in the Andes Mountains of Peru.  Potatoes became the staple food of those hardy people and I doubt if any of them were fat.  

Potatoes are considered a complete food.  If you were to eat a die...

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