&gt; you dont need to start eating some other food to make up for the nutrients you arent getting. you can just cut starches out of your diet.<p>If you cut out starches, you need to replace those calories with other food. If it isn&#x27;t vegetables, it&#x27;ll probably be animal products, which are way less healthy than the innocent potato.<p>&gt; for the most part, starches are fillers<p>I don&#x27;t think so.<p>&quot;THE potato is a very important constituent of the diet of many civilised nations, and it may be considered to furnish, with bread, the bulk of the food of the rural population of such countries as Poland and Russia. There is little doubt that the Polish or Russian peasant is nevertheless very healthy and able to do extremely hard work under trying conditions. Deficiency diseases such as beriberi, pellagra or scurvy are practically unknown in Poland.&quot;<p>The value of whole potato in human nutrition<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC1252113&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC1252113&#x2F;</a>