India, Aug. 15 -- Potatoes have quite the fan following when it comes to snacks, with big headliners being potato chips and French fries. Being versatile, potatoes are also a staple in lunch and dinner in different forms, such as mashed potatoes paired with veggies. To understand how potatoes might affect health, especially the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a recent study published in the British Medical Journal aimed to examine whether different ways of eating potatoes, fried, baked, boiled, or mashed, made any difference.

Let's go one by one through each of the potato cooking styles and how they may increase diabetes risks. Baked, boiled, and mashed ways of eating potatoes have the lowest risk factor compared to fried. The study'...