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National Potato Day 2025: National Potato Day is celebrated every year on 19 August. This day is celebrated to recognize the importance of potatoes and increase awareness about its uses and benefits. Potato is the most popular vegetable eaten in India. But you have often heard that potato increases weight rapidly, because it contains a lot of calories. Whenever a person is on a diet or is losing weight, he first avoids potatoes. At the same time, those who need to gain weight consume potatoes. But do you know that if potatoes are eaten properly then it can also reduce weight.
Yes, if you consume potatoes properly and take care of the amount of food, then it can also stop increasing your weight. At the same time, some time ago a diet was also very popular, in which it was claimed that only eating potatoes can reduce weight. So let us also have everything about Potato Diet on this special occasion.
Potato neutrition
Talking about the nutrients of potato, it contains natural carbohydrates. Apart from this, vitamin C, potassium, fiber, protein and antioxidants and some quantity of iron are also found. Potatoes have high protein and fiber, due to which it is beneficial for those who gain weight. But if you want to lose weight, then it is very important to know how to cook potatoes properly.
What is Potato Diet?
According to the healthline, some time a diet was quite popular to reduce, which is called potato diet. It is also known as Potato Hack. It is a kind of short term diet, which is claimed that it is helpful in weight loss. In this diet, you are advised to eat only plane potatoes for 3 to 5 days. According to the healthline, this diet started in the year 1849. But it is Tim Steel to popularize it, who wrote an entire book on it, named Potato Hack: Weight Loss Simplified. Tim Steel believes that the potato is helpful in strengthening the immune system to improving the gut health. It also reduces weight.
Is it really less weight?
This diet was also followed by many people. It is said that famous magician Pen Gillette Presto! How I Made Over 100 wrote a book called 100 pounds disappear, in which he said that he had only ate plain potatoes for the first 2 weeks and had reduced the weight of about 18 pounds (about 8 kg). Although many people claimed that this diet has reduced their weight, but these claims have not been confirmed in scientific research.
What are the rules of patto diet
There are some rules to follow this diet. You only have to include plane potatoes in your diet. Throughout the day you have to eat 0.92.3 kg of potatoes. While following this diet, there is no food of any kind. Especially condenses and toppings such as ketchup, butter, sor cream and cheese. You can use salt in this diet, but try to minimize its quantity too. During this time you can drink water, tea or black coffee. Also keep doing light exercises and walking.
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