Dietitians recognize sweet potatoes, also known as yams, as the single most most nutritious vegetable available in our markets. Sydney bough...
Dietitians recognize sweet potatoes, also known as yams, as the single most most nutritious vegetable available in our markets. Sydney bought these sweet potatoes --- but we can grow sweet potatoes in our Los Angeles gardens. Though sweet potatoes remain low calories ( compared to common white potatoes ), sweet potatoes are rich in complex carbohydrates, dietary fiber, beta-carotene (a provitamin A carotenoid), vitamin C, vitamin B6, manganese and potassium. Sweet potatoes provide fiber, complex carbohydrates, protein, vitamins A and C, iron, and calcium. Actors struggling to support themselves as they wait for paying work in films or television can afford inexpensive and nutritious sweet potatoes -- or grow sweet potatoes in their gardens. Gardeners can also include the leaves and flowers in their salads. For a young woman attempting to maintain her figure, sweet potato dishes provide interesting, spicy, and healthy alternative to high starch white potatoes. Look at Sydney. She is the image of a shapely, healthy actress. She maintains her body without the drugs and fad diets that so often destroy the health of young women -- and older women -- struggling to remain slender and lithe in our modern society of high starch, high sugar, high fat trash foods. Sweet potatoes, as Sydney shows, can be prepared in minutes --- as the cook prepares other dishes. Sweet potatoes require no more time than high-starch white potatoes -- Sydney peels and boils her sweet potatoes. This ... Less
