Beans, Beans, They're Good For Your Heart

Описание: Legumes such as lentils, chickpeas, beans and split peas may reduce cholesterol so much that consumers may be able to get off their cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, but to profoundly alter heart disease risk we may have to more profoundly alter our diet.

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Beans dips like hummus are among my favorite go-to snacks. I like to dip snap peas and red bell pepper slices in them. I’d love to hear everyone’s favorite recipe. You show me yours and I’ll show you mine :)

Canned Beans or Cooked Beans? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/canne...) Click the link to find out!

Beans can help us live longer (Increased Lifespan from Beans http://nutritionfacts.org/video/incre..., control our blood sugars (Beans and the Second Meal Effect http://nutritionfacts.org/video/beans..., and help prevent and treat diabetes (Preventing Prediabetes By Eating More http://www.nutritionfacts.org/video/p... and Diabetics Should Take Their Pulses http://www.nutritionfacts.org/video/d....

What about the purported “anti-nutrient” phytates in beans? You mean the Phytates for the Prevention of Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/phyta..., the Phytates for Rehabilitating Cancer Cells (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/phyta..., and the Phytates for the Treatment of Cancer? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/phyta...) Phytate-containing foods may also help protect our bones (Phytates for the Prevention of Osteoporosis http://nutritionfacts.org/video/phyta....

Why not just take cholesterol pills every day for the rest of our life? See my videos Statin Muscle Toxicity (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/stati...) and Statin Cholesterol Drugs and Invasive Breast Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/stati....

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