Weird problem: I can't eat potatoes. Any idea why?

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Quoted message said:

Hello,
I have a weird dietary problem. I can't eat potatoes. Or rather, I
can, and they taste fine to me, but then 30-60 minutes after I eat
them, I suddenly start to feel very weird. I feel dizzy, light-headed,
and unsteady, and have almost painful hunger pangs. This continues
until I devour sufficient quantities of non-potato food. This started,
for no discernable reason, a few years ago. BTW, this only seems to
happen with boiled or baked potatoes, not mashed potatoes.
Any ideas as to why this might be?
Thanks!

You might try testing your blood glucose with a meter at intervals after
eating them.
When that happened to me, it turned out to be reactive hypoglycemia.
Potatoes and white flour/starches were my worst offenders.

Susan

Sounds, like you got too much time on your hands.

Maybe, if you actually ate real potatoes or learned how to cook?

Mr. Natural-Health said:

Sounds, like you got too much time on your hands.

Maybe, if you actually ate real potatoes or learned how to cook?

Ha ha.

I do appreciate a good example of sarcasm, just on artistic grounds.
However...

These are *real* potatoes i.e. from the produce department that you
have to wash and etc.
I never eat microwave dinners and etc. if that's what you're
thinking...if that was what was causing this I think I'd notify the
FDA. Not that that would do any good these days

Notice how I said *baked* or *boiled*.

Baked potatoes aren't rocket science. But they are yummy. That's one of
the reasons I used to like them. So clearly, tragically indeed, the
problem here is with potatoes *per se*.

And the problem isn't my cooking, either, because it happens no matter
who prepares them.

If my grandparents heard this they'd be crushed. My German peasant
ancestors lived on these things, so I doubt it's a genetic condition...

Susan said:

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Quoted message said:

Hello,
I have a weird dietary problem. I can't eat potatoes. Or rather, I
can, and they taste fine to me, but then 30-60 minutes after I eat
them, I suddenly start to feel very weird. I feel dizzy, light-headed,
and unsteady, and have almost painful hunger pangs. This continues
until I devour sufficient quantities of non-potato food. This started,
for no discernable reason, a few years ago. BTW, this only seems to
happen with boiled or baked potatoes, not mashed potatoes.
Any ideas as to why this might be?
Thanks!

You might try testing your blood glucose with a meter at intervals after
eating them.
When that happened to me, it turned out to be reactive hypoglycemia.
Potatoes and white flour/starches were my worst offenders.

Susan

Thanks for the tip.
This is to say the least interesting and worth investigating.

Additional dietary oddities of mine ( just in case they suggest
anything):

I have to eat huge quantities of food. Like twice as much as a normal
person. This started when I was a kid- I used to try to eat as much as
possible, such that my family nicknamed me "the black hole". But
nowadays, I *have* to eat ridiculous quantities, or I feel very hungry
and can't think straight or function properly.

BTW, in spite of years of gluttony, I never gained much weight and am
still rather slender (6' 4", 190lbs). Very high metabolism, I guess.

And I do have, now that I think of it, problems with depression,
anxiety, very bad insomnia, and fatigue (have to take naps a lot).
Although not any other of the symptoms of reactive hypoglycemia that I
found. Hmm...maybe I should have looked into this earlier LOL.

Also:
Once, I was hiking in Costa Rica, and due to animals getting into my
food, on the last day I had to hike for 10 hours on a small sandwich.
I was fine until on the bus back into town, when I momentarily passed
out and then went blind for 30 seconds. The doctor (as close as could
make out, in his Spanish) ascribed this to temporarily very low blood
sugar due to too little food and too much exertion.

It was after moving out, and starting to eat less food, and indeed
abusing myself dietarally like the above example, that I began to
develop an *incapacity* to go without massive quantities of food even
temporarily.

Additionally: I was raised vegetarian and with occasional exceptions
still am. I eat little junkfood and exercise a lot (though I didnt used
to) and dont generally have many health problems.

Anyway.

Yeah, ... but do you eat those real potatoes along with other real
food?
http://naturalhealthperspective.com/food/whole-grains.html
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