Your Challenge for Week #3 is to eat at least 1/2 cup of beans or legumes every day. Beans are incredibly nutritious and very inexpensive--a great thing to add to your diet. And there are many more ways to eat them than in Chili! Try 1/2 a cup of black beans folded into a morning omelette, 1/2 a cup of your favorite type of bean sprinkled on top of a green salad or even 1/2 a cup thrown into a fruit smoothie. Please forward any favorite bean recipes to the group as we are having a beanie week!
Why we should eat more beans?
Beans are a great source of nutrients and a wonderful addition to a healthy diet. Studies have shown their many health benefits, including the prevention of diseases like cancer, helping to maintain healthy weight, being high in protein, having good amounts of fiber; furthermore, there is just such a great variety of beans to eat, and they taste great too!
Beans have been shown in various studies to lower the risk of health conditions such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and even cancer.
Beans are greatly nutritious foods. They have beneficial phytochemicals as well as antioxidant properties. In general, darker colored beans, such as those red and black in color, have stronger antioxidant properties.
Technically speaking, beans are a type of legume, which also includes foods such as peas and lentils. Beans are relatively inexpensive, and can be afforded by most. Beans are high in protein, and those who are concerned about a lack of protein in vegetarian diets can ensure adequate intake by consuming beans. Generally, a quarter cup of any type of legume has roughly the same amount of protein as an ounce of meat.
Perhaps one problem with eating beans is the intestinal gas which they seem to create. These can be tackled in three possible ways. Firstly, beans can be cooked with spices and herbs, for example cumin, garlic, fennel seeds, rosemary, lemongrass, coriander and turmeric. Using a digestive enzyme supplement may also help.
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