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Beans a Top 10 Power Food
“Which item tops the list of antioxidant foods? Surprise! It’s the small red bean.”
Legumes Offer More Fiber and Protein Than Any Other Veggie
Dietitian Timaree Hagenburger recommends that her clients eat beans at least every other day.
Passionate Palate: Reconsidering the lowly bean
Cooking instructor Margi Lenga Kahn explains how health, economics, and versatility have made beans a food favorite around the world.
Besides being tasty, beans are economical
“Finding ways to stretch food dollars is important in these tough economic times. One way to get the nutrition you and your family need, without giving up taste and variety, is to make beans a regular part of your meals.”
High-fiber diet could help you live longer, study says
According to a recent study from the National Institutes of Health and AARP, those who eat a diet high in fiber, including dry beans, significantly increase their longevity.
Beans for the New Year
“Are you looking for an inexpensive way to eat a healthier diet in the coming year? Beans are the perfect way to eat well with out spending a lot of money.”
The World’s Healthiest Foods: Pinto Beans
With an abundance of health benefits, including cholesterol reducing fiber and heart helping protein, discover the benefits of pinto beans.
The World’s Healthiest Foods: Kidney Bean
Kidney beans, a fiber all –star, can reduce heart attack risk, stabilize blood sugar levels, and increase energy. These beans are not only healthy, but easy to store and prepare.
The World’s Healthiest Foods: Black Beans
Looking for a food that tastes great, has multiple health benefits, and gives you energy to burn? Look no further than the black bean.
Everyday Ideas for Adding Beans to Your Diet
Enhance the fiber and protein in your everyday dishes with easy-to-prepare beans. Whether you choose fresh, frozen, canned or dried, it’s easy to be creative with beans and add to a variety of recipes.
Health Benefits of Beans and Lentils
If you could find a food that could regulate blood sugar, help prevent heart disease and cancer, plus a Dieter’s dream, wouldn’t you give it a try?
Dried Beans
How well do you know your bean types? Learn more about the many different types of dry beans including navy beans, garbanzo beans, and many more, in this article from the well-respected outlet Cooking Light.
Delicious Benefits of Beans for Diabetes
Chock-full of health benefits, beans are the healthy choice for everyone. Find out the benefits in fighting disease as well as several fun ways to spice up bean consumption.
Bean Counterculture
Bean Crazy? Read why Rancho Gordo Beans owner Steve Sando has to say in this New York Times article.
The Health Benefits of Common Beans
Beans, once considered “the poor people’s meat,” are now referred to as the “the healthy people’s meat!” Not only are they the second biggest provider of calories and protein to people around the world, they also have many healthy effects. Filled with antioxidants, folic acid, vitamins, and magnesium, beans may help to reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer.
The health benefits of navy beans
Navy beans, a great source of potassium, magnesium, selenium, and other beneficial nutrients, are a great way to spice up a healthy diet. Quick to prepare and delicious to eat, these vegetables can, among other things, help protect your bones and regulate blood pressure.
Black Beans and Your Health
Want a food that will help fight heart disease, cancer and the effects of aging? If so black beans are the bean for you! They are full of dietary fiber, protein and antioxidants, all known to benefit heart health.
Five Health Benefits of Black Beans
Get your daily dose of fiber, antioxidants, vitamin B6, and molybdenum from one source. That’s right! Black beans are full of nutritional value which will give you a daily healthy boost.
Antioxidant Superstars: Vegetables and Beans
When people think of antioxidants, berries may be top of mind…but studies have shown that beans, in fact, top the list when it comes to antioxidants.
Benefits Abound in Beans and Whole Grains
Beans have been a staple of good health throughout time on all continents! Rich in dietary fiber, protein and a number of minerals and other compounds, beans are not only nutritious, but are believed to be effective in preventing/slowing cancer growth. Learn more at the American Institute for Cancer Research, and consider a tasty recipe, to boot!
Good Protein
Beans contain high levels of protein and fiberto increase your sense of ‘fullness.’
5 Winter Superfoods: Dried Beans: Nutrient Profile
Beans are in the superfood class! Surprised? You won’t be after reading-up on their nutrient profiles!
Beans: Protein-Rich Superfoods
Beans are a potent weapon in the fight for health, as well as a healthy waistline!
Beans: A musical source of nutrition
New studies show that black beans are loaded with disease-fighting antioxidants.
Heart Benefits
Cardiovascular and renal benefits of dry bean and soybean intake
A study completed by the Metabolic Research Group at The University of Kentucky concludes that nutrient rich beans are a great source for complex carbohydrates, vegetable protein, dietary fiber, oligosaccharides, phytochemicals, and minerals. Wow! Additionally, they suggest that incorporating them into your diet can be practical and enjoyable as well.
Spilling the Heart-Healthy Beans
Looking for ways to improve your health? Eating dried beans is a tasty way to increase protein and fiber intake in your daily diet, and can help to decrease cholesterol.
Pinto Bean Consumption Reduces Biomarkers for Heart Disease Risk
How can pinto bean consumption reduce the risk of heart disease? Read this study on the health benefits of the pinto bean conducted by researchers in the Department of Nutrition at Arizona State University.
How To Get A Heart-Healthy Kitchen
Concerned about heart disease? Well look no further! Beans, a food with a low glycemic index, can reduce your risk of heart disease by 22%.
Eating Beans Helps Lower Cholesterol
Managing cholesterol may be easier than you think! USDA researchers have shown that eating as few as one-half cup of cooked dry beans a day may reduce your cholesterol by a measurable amount!
Diabetes
Health Benefits of Pinto Beans
Looking for new ways to help regulate your blood sugar? Try adding Pinto beans to your diet! Full of folate, dietary fiber, tryptophan, manganese, and many more nutrients, these beans are a ideal food for diabetics.
Lowering the glycemic index of white bread using a white bean extract
-According to a study published in the Nutrition Journal, kidney beans are an excellent source of Phase 2, a dietary supplement derived from the bean. Phase 2 has been shown to effectively lower the glycemic index in foods which has been shown to help manage diabetes.
Health Benefits of Beans
-Rich in fiber, beans are great for managing diabetes. By slowly, rather than rapidly,increasing blood sugar levels, beans help to provide sustained energy.
Obesity
-A recent study at the University of Southern California concludes that overweight Latino children who reduced their daily sugar intake and increased daily fiber intake through the consumption of beans, are able to reduce the risk of certain type 2 diabetes factors.
Diabetes and the Magic Beans
-Low in fat, high in fiber, and a good source of complex carbohydrates, beans in the diet can reduce the incidence of diabetes, according to researchers atHanyang University in Seoul.
Satiety
Food & Diet In Diabetes
-Stop felling hungry after you eat, beans rank high on the Satiety Index! It’s true;this protein packed food is perfect for fulfilling any appetite. This Satiety Index was developed by Dr. Susanne Holt (University of Sydney).
Carb-cutting Enzyme Stopped By Bean Extract, Endocrinologists Say
-Recent studies conducted by UCLA Researchers shows that kidney beans contain an extract, known as Phase 2, which may help the body stop carbs from breaking down into sugars.
The Beauty of Beans (Part 1) & Food Group Superfoods (Part 2)
Superfood? You bet! Author Amy Campbell provides good insights into dry beans and their nutritional benefits in two installment articles that are a quick-read!
Diet For Diabetics: Low-Glycemic Diet Shows Greater Improvement In Glycemic Control Than High-Fiber Diet
Low glycemic foods can help manage diabetes! According to a study by researchers at the University of Toronto, those patients on a low glycemic index diet had better outcome measures (improved cholesterol management and better HbA1c scores) when compared with patients on a high cereal fiber diet. The low glycemic index diet includesbeans.
Reducing Sugar And Increasing Fiber Intake May Improve Diabetes Risk Factors In Latino Teens
Lowering the amount of sugar and increasing the amount of fiber in our diets can improve health for many of us! A recent study of Latino adolescents demonstrated that fact when fiber—one half cup of beans—was included in the diet.
Cancer
Eat More Beans to Prevent Colon Cancer
-Recent studies show that dry beans provide a carbohydrate that raises the blood sugar level slowly, rather than quickly, an effect that has been associated with lower risk of colon cancer.
Beans and Lentils Prevent Breast Cancer
-Rich in antioxidants, fiber, phytoestrogens, and other cancer preventing agents, dry beans have been shown to reduce the risk of breast cancer significantly.
Benefits of beans include lower cancer risk
-Looking for an easy way to reduce the risk of cancer and heard disease at the same time? Studies show that it can be as simple as consuming four or more servings of beans a week!
Henry J. Thompson
-This is an audio presentation of the cancer preventing properties of beans given by Henry J. Thompson, Cancer Prevention Lab, and Mark Brick, both of the Colorado State University.
Foods That Fight Cancer?
Fortify your diet and your mind! What’s in a bean that has potential functional food benefits? Potential tool in the arsenal against cancer?
Eat more beans to prevent cancer & University College London Study Shows Beans Beat Cancer
What’s in a bean that may fight cancer? Researchers at University College in London report on one, called inositol pentakisphosphate, shown to block tumor growth.
Beans may prevent colon cancer
A study of polyps in a large sample of high risk men and women (Polyp Prevention Study) suggests that eating dry beans may impact the recurrence of pre-cancerous colon polyps.