Potatoes Are a Vegetable, NOT “Darth Tater”

Here’s my second post to WebMD’s Real Life Nutrition blog. Enjoy! By David Grotto, RD, LDN aka “The Guyatitian” I love potatoes. My family loves potatoes. My patients love potatoes. But none of us have needed to enroll in a twelve-step program to free ourselves from a terrible potato addiction. So why am I professing [...]

Ask The Guyatitian

Dear Guyatitian: Are brown rice cakes and puffed brown rice cereal considered whole grain?  They only have 1 gram of fiber, but their puffed so you eat more.  Just curious. Annie from Chicago   Dear Annie Puffed brown rice is a whole grain. However, the puffing process changes the rice in a few ways.  ”Glycemic [...]