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More misleading information from scientists....

A new British study has identified the lowly potato as the safest food on the menu, saying it is the least likely food to cause fatigue, irritable bowel syndrome, eczema, and migraine.

But they're like eating pure sugar are linked to diabetes and make you fat. According to the top food cop, Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health, says we can't tolerate 'em.....
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"In a contemporary, sedentary society, potatoes are unhealthy, with a very big glycemic load. We've seen in our studies that higher potato consumption is related to a risk of diabetes. They are very rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream-more than eating pure sugar: sugar is only half glucose when it's broken down, potatoes are 100 percent glucose. There's not very much in terms of redeemable nutritional value that you get for the calories.

Unless you are extremely lean and extremely active, you can't tolerate them. If you really like potatoes, you can have them in moderation now and then, but the trouble is that a big mountain of potatoes on your plate twice a day is how many people eat."

"Actually, careful studies have shown, demonstrated that you get a bigger rise in blood sugar after eating potatoes, a baked potato, say, than you do from eating pure table sugar."

I've often wondered why the awkward fork is still beside the plate. It’s unaesthetic, heavy, easily dropped. But unless its heavy and gauche it’s useless as an anchor tool for eating, its tines firmly planted in a piece of food while the decisive knife saws away. Europeans have tamed the fork, keeping firm grip on it with one hand and using the other to grasp the all-important knife, both utensils poised above the plate like a couple of hawks waiting to drop on the prey. North Americans on the other hand cut with the knife then shed it and change the fork to the other hand the better to shovel food into the mouth. This looks, incidentally, terrible. On the other hand, the need to shovel food says something about the inefficacy of our existing eating tools.
No wonder work to find a supertool has been going on for decades...

Now comes the Knork.



No it’s not a Spork – the spoon fork invented during World War II to puzzle Japanese invaders.




Nor is it the Splayde or Sporkfe





which has never caught on even with toddlers maybe because they can't pronounce it.

The Knork, which will be introduced at the International Home and Housewares show next week in Chicago, is a fork with a knifelike edge that the inventor Mike Miller claims can cut through a raw carrot. Miller promotes the Knork as the answer for cutting your food on airplanes (what airline, please) for the blind or disabled or for just eating in front of the TV (Now I can see that).

On the other hand, how about shedding all eating utensils and going back to hands? Limits what we eat of course, hard to enjoy spaghetti when grasped in a gooey mess that gets all over your face. This doesn’t apparently deter the British millennial eater. The UK chain Sainsbury’s survey of young eaters finds that 10% do without any dining hardware at all.

For more on cutlery go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/04/AR2008030400613.html