Since when potatoes were the main ingredient in almost every country in the developed world

Since when potatoes were the main ingredient in almost every country in the developed world? Well I do not know either, but I know that during the famine Irish potatoes (1845-1852), also known as Gorta Mor or Great Hunger and killed nearly 1 million people, and more than a million more emigrated from Ireland to escape the famine that was for devastated economy Irish.

The humble potato has become an important element in most of the dinner table, but is it really all that healthy?

Potatoes are very high in carbohydrates and starches long. In the end it is to break all the starch digestible one eventually into simple sugars in the body. Is then absorbed into the blood sugar, raise blood sugar levels. This in turn increases the secretion and production of insulin, and we do not have fat storage hormone.

The pancreas secretes insulin in large quantities. It prevents fat burning and stores many of the nutrients in the fat cells. After some time, this may bring about a distinct lack of dietary supplements in the blood, and this brings the construction of hunger and yearning for something sweet. At this point people eat again, and we will process begins again, therefore, this vicious cycle brings overweight.

Then again, low consumption of carbohydrates gives you a lower, more stable blood sugar, and reduces the amount of insulin produced by the pancreas. This triggers the release of fat from fat stores and also increases the burning of fat. This brings the course for fat loss, particularly around the abdomen in people abdominally obese.

Unfortunately, what we all need to face, is the fact is that we live in a nation of increasing obesity. Statistics indicate that obesity has doubled since 1980. The latest figures published by the Center for Disease Control that more than one-third (34.9% or 78.6 million) of US adults are obese. Obesity has been cited as a contributing factor between 100000-400000 deaths in the United States each year, costing society an estimated $ 117 billion in direct costs, and represents a 6% to 12% of national health care expenditures in the United States.

Currently estimated level of fitness using our known as calculating BMI (body / mass index) is known as the body mass index as a body divided block of length body box, and are expressed globally in units kg / m2, and caused by the mass in kilograms and height in meters.

Of late, and there was some discussion within the medical centers about the accuracy of the BMI test. Due to the fact that we all have different amounts of muscle and fat, both of which have different density and weight and measurement must become logically inaccurate.