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Potato has ALA or alpha lipoic acid antioxidant that helps prevent muscular degeneration and allergy

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The potato skin rejuvenating best for anti aging care properties can help prevent diabetes, heart disease, allergies, and arthritis. The ALA or alpha lipoic acid antioxidant property of the potato can also prevent cataract, muscular degeneration, and neuropathy. Potato is a non-fattening root vegetable you may find easy to digest because of its starch, cellulose, and vegetable fiber components. In science, the white potato and the sweet potato demonstrate complementary nutritional differences. The sweet potato has more fiber and Vitamin A while the white potato has minerals, iron, magnesium, and potassium. The sweet potato has also lower glycemic index and found to be very rich in nutrients when eaten whole. Less the butter, sour cream, and cheese toppings, the sweet potato may lower the glycemic index of the meal.

In its truest sense, food in its unaltered state provides fuel and lasting health. Food that usually damage health were the ones being altered and made into something else such as the processed food. When you cook a potato in hydrogenated oil to make a potato chip or French fry, you alter this natural food and create it into something that may not be beneficial to your body and health even if it is just an add on of an organic butter. The key to good well being and better quality of life is to stay away from food prepared with unnecessary fats and additives.

This is the nutrition you get per 175 g serving of boiled potato in skins

Vitamin C 15.75mg

Vitamin B6 0.58mg

Potassium 753mg

Iron 2.8mg

Fiber 2.6mg

Magnesium 31.5mg

Vitamin B1 0.23mg

Folate 33ug

Calories 115.5kcal

Fat 0.5g

 

GI rating of potato

A potato when unaltered and eaten on its own shows a GI rating of 88, but when baked, the GI rating goes down to 39. The potassium in potato possesses strong alkaline characteristics that make it good for liver activation, elastic tissues, and supple muscles. The potassium compound is the body’s natural healer that makes it effective for anti aging care skin tightening and skin rejuvenation treatment. One research has linked potassium directly to protection from stroke being good food for the heart. A potato is all you need to pick up an extra 400mg of potassium every day. This results to about 40% reduction of risk for having a stroke. Potatoes have high concentrations of protease inhibitors that neutralizes carcinogens and viruses. The skins of the potatoes are rich in chlorogenic acid, which is a form of a polyphenol that prevents cancer causing cell mutations. The Florida State University found that the skins of the potato have antioxidant activity that fights and neutralizes free radicals. The eyes and skin of the potatoes were found to contain life giving properties. When you peel it off, you lost the best part.

References

Andrew, A. (2007). Empowering your health: Do you want to get well? Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers.

Kaur, L. (2007). Advances in potato chemistry and technology. Netherlands: Elsevier.

Knaggs, H. V. (2005). Potatoes as food & medicine: Use & the cleansing saline fast. Pomeroy, WA: Health Research.

Men’s Health Oct 2007


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