Eating Potatoes 4 Times per Week Leads To High Blood Pressure

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3595045/Eating-potatoes-four-times-week-raises-risk-high-blood-pressure-Baked-bad-chips-crisps-no-effect.html

Eating potatoes four times a week increases the risk of high blood pressure, experts have found.

Even eating mashed, boiled or baked potatoes is linked to an increased danger, because they are nearly as likely to raise blood pressure as eating chips.

Chips contain far more fat because of the frying process, which raises other health risks.

But the researchers, from Harvard Medical School, think eating any form of potato too often can cause blood pressure problems.

They suspect the starch in potatoes is to blame.

Because potatoes have a high glycaemic index, these starchy carbohydrates rapidly transform into sugars in the body, triggering a sharp rise in blood sugar levels.

Over time, this may cause blood sugar problems, the researchers said.

[Free Vulcan]

Not the whole story though. Baker potatoes like russets are high in starch, purple potatoes like Viking or a Red Bliss type are much higher in protein, while reds, yellows, and such are in between. Your waxier potatoes are much lower glycemic than the starchier ones.

Also note that it's carbs, not salt, that has a greater and longer term effect on blood pressure, so yes eating starchy potatoes that much, or any kind of carb, is going to do that.