I love my food, always have, and have said for years that I would never give up meat and go vegetarian. Well, life has a way of changing the way you think and react and it also has a lot to do with our lifestyle and life in Western society.
White potatoes have been a big factor in my diet, until recently! I love roast potatoes so every weekend I would cook them as part of my Sunday dinner and I also loved roast potatoes for lunch. Suffering with fibroids and not being able to poop regularly, I never would have thought that potatoes and fibroids had any correlation. Doctors couldn’t diagnose this – I had to visit my nutritionist who gave me a diet sheet to follow (which I found difficult to adjust to) and I realized that omitting white potatoes, rice, bread and pasta from my diet made such a dramatic change in my daily life!
I couldn’t believe that I no longer felt lethargic after eating lunch, I didn’t feel uncomfortable in the intestinal area because I wasn’t so bloated. Instead of eating white potatoes, I now love eating sweet potatoes and no longer have that bloated or achy feeling I used to experience every time I ate potatoes. Now I can eat sweet potatoes and I love them. I eat them baked potatoes with stuffing, I eat them with salads; however, I used to eat white potatoes, now I substitute white potatoes for sweet potatoes and they have certainly contributed more to my healthier eating habits.
Nutritionally, sweet potatoes are an excellent source of vitamin A (beta-carotene form), a very good source of vitamin C and manganese, a good source of copper, dietary fiber, vitamin B6, potassium, and iron.
Sweet potatoes are a great addition to your healthy diet if you’re not already enjoying such a wonderful vegetable.
