BENEFITS OF SUBSTITUTING RICE WITH KAMOTE

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BENEFITS OF SUBSTITUTING RICE WITH KAMOTE 1. Kamote is more filling and suppresses hunger pangs longer. It is also cheaper than rice. 2. Unlike rice, kamote is so easy to grow. It grows in backyards with or without fertilizers. Local government executives can provide their poor communities with idle government land for planting kamote which the entire community can share. 3. Unlike rice which needs to be eaten with a dish, kamote tastes good and can be eaten by itself. Thus, substituting rice with kamote saves money for other needs. 4. Rice cannot match the nutritional values of kamote. Because rice converts to sugar in the body, the Phils. registers as a top producer of diabetics in the world. The poor tends to load up on rice and less on the dish which are more expensive. That makes them vulnerable to diabetes, an ailment known in developed countries as a rich man’s disease. 5. The nutritional values of a:    3 oz baked kamote                        100 g serving of white rice    218 IU                                                         -0-    calcium 38 mg                                calcium 8 mg    calories 90                                      calories 361 kcal   carbohydrate 21 g         carbohydrates 82 g    carotenoids 11,552 mcg                             -0-    cholesterol 0 mg                                         -0-    dietary fiber 3 g                             dietary fiber 0.6 g    fat 0 g                                              niacin 1.8 g    folic acid 6 micrograms                 phosphorous 87 mg    magnesium 45 mg    manganese 1 mg                                         -0-    pantothenic acid 1 mg                                -0-    potassium 475 mg                          potassium 111 mg    protein 2 g                                      protein 6 g   saturated fat 0 g                                            sodium 36 mg                                 sodium 31 mg    vitamin A 19                                   vitamin B1 0.07 mg    vitamin B6 <1 mg                           vitamin B2 0.02 mg    vitamin C 20 mg                             water 10.2 g 6. Too much rice consumption can make you sick but kamote can bring you to health and keep away some health problems. These have been proved medically. In a medical documentary on KBS World (the South Korean TV Network), showed results of the research the Koreans conducted on the nutritional and medicinal benefits of kamote (which they refer to as sweet potato). In that Korean medical documentary, they presented the research findings on people with established health problems who were placed on a kamote/sweet potato diet. Believe it or not – kamote lowers hypertension, bad cholesterol and even blood sugar when eaten as SUBSTITUTE TO RICE! The purple sweet potato (kamote) is particularly effective for lowering hypertension. Not only that, the Korean medical documentary credits the sweet potato (kamote) as high fiber and is one of the best foods that one can eat to prevent cancer! For those who are only impressed by US doctors, read this: the North Carolina Stroke Association, American Cancer Society, and the American Heart Association have all endorsed the sweet potato for its disease prevention and healing qualities. The Americans, the South Koreans – both progressive nations – have raised the kamote to a high pedestal. Many of them even call the kamote a “super food that heals.” And just how do we Filipinos regard the kamote? Remember how we like to call a loser as one who is nangangamote (Filipino term for lagging behind)? Truly, unless we unlearn many things, we will, as a nation, always be nangangamote. Also, I would like to add that we don't admit to eating camote because camote - including the talbos ng camote, are for the poor -and we don't want to be associated with "them"