A man in Australia has lost 10kg after eating only potatoes for a month. In a bid to cure himself of binge-eating, 36-year-old Andrew Taylor from Melbourne began the diet on New Year’s Day 2016. He has vowed to continue his tuber-based regime - which also includes sweet potatoes - for a full year, despite nutritionists' warnings against regimes based on a single ingredient or food group.

“I wanted to change the way I thought about food so that it’s not controlling my life,” he said. He made the decision to start the diet after a lifelong struggle with food, and is documenting the experiment on the Facebook page ‘Spud Fit’.