[Danox]

The American Indians in South America, ate potatoes for hundreds of years, potatoes, even saved many people in Europe there’s nothing wrong with them in moderation.

[za3faran]

They also had a much more active lifestyle (e.g. farming, hunting, physical training, etc.) that would offset carb heavy foods.

[red-iron-pine]

those potatoes aren't like the ones we cultivate now; similar for things like corn and bananas.

and they weren't eating half a kilo of them, deep fried, in a sitting (e.g. fish and chips or McD's french fries) for breakfast lunch and dinner

[hulitu]

> McD's french fries

those are not potatoes.