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6516150 No.6516150 [Reply] [Original]

Why are potatoes so fucking based?

>> No.6516153

>>6516150
Empty calories and good texture that allow easy transformation from starch to sugar.

Sugar high, basically.

>> No.6516158

>>6516153
Damn, I am eating one right now and I feel pretty good about it.

>> No.6516159

>>6516153
Empty calories are best calories. I know because my body tells me in my sleep

>> No.6516164

>>6516150
there's a lot of nutritional value in a potato. that's why it's a staple food. but when you slice it thin and nuke it in oil..

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>>6516159
Would you suggest the humble potato as a pre run energy?

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>>6516169
I'm no expert on the topic, but I believe most atheletes down a steak or a plate of pasta before their events.

>> No.6516188

>>6516184

I ran a marathon yesterday, for the training and buildup for the actual event I tried to maintain a 3K calorie diet with at least 60% carbs in the weeks leading up.

I had an issue with nutrition and hitting the wall...ended up with a 3.500 calorie day before the race that included 485 grams of carbs.

>> No.6516205

>>6516169
carbs are a good energy source for exercise, just don't overdo it or you won't burn it all off and it'll turn into fat.

>> No.6516233

>>6516205
>>6516188
I am a fast runner, but I have never considered potatoes much.
I am starting to include them in my diet more. I am really digging them right now.

>> No.6516237

>>6516153
if you eat nothing but potatoes maybe, but if you eat your potatoes with other foods like a normal person it can be used to create a balanced meal

>> No.6516244

>>6516237
He didn't even say it can't. He was only answering OP's question and saying we respond so positively to it because it provides cheap energy.

>> No.6518393

>>6516244
anon was probably reacting to the negative connotations for empty calories.

>> No.6518426

I prefer sweet potatoes

>>6516205

>carbs turn into fat

Fat turns into fat

>> No.6518432

>>6516150
They're not.
1) they go bad quickly
2) they're hard to cook
3) the easiest way to cook them is awful (wash them off, pierce them a few times with a pronged fork, microwave)
4) you have to add shit that's bad for you (water, butter, oil, seasonings) to get them to taste good

>> No.6518448

>>6518432
>2) they're hard to cool
>you have to add shit that's bad for you (water
do you happen to be australian?

>> No.6518454

>>6516150
Boil 'em
Mash 'em
Stick 'em in a stew

>> No.6518457

>>6518432
>water
>bad for you

>> No.6518469

>>6518426
Cards turn to sugar, sugar turns to fat
Ergo cards turn into fat

>> No.6518478

>>6518469

>sugar turns to fat

nah cuh

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>>6518432
>they go bad because I dont cook them
>Im fucking retarded and can't cook
>the easiest way to cook them is the only way I know how to cook them
>you have to add things like seasoning like, you know, you do to all food
Seriously you stupid fuck?

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>>6518478
>>6518469

http://books.google.com/books?id=hrdRROeCI9IC&pg=PA263

>> No.6518498

>>6518469
>cards turn into fat
the body much prefers to turn sugars into glycogen, a watery substance used by muscles as fuel. The body can store 2000 calories of glycogen. Turning carbs into fat is not very efficient.

>> No.6519194

>>6518393
and sugar high