Hi, Nancy,

The recommendation with the potato is to eat it with the skin on, which causes it to absorb more slowly, and to avoid a blood sugar high.

You have to read one of the books (I like the Sugar Addicts Total Recovery Program) to fully comprehend how it all works in terms of biochemistry.

But--starches are converted to sugars in the blood stream--same thing. If you read the book(s), you'll get a sense of why some of us react more strongly to sugars, some to starches, etc.

Sunspot