Beans, Beans, They’re Good For Your Heart04:33

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Published on July 13, 2017

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? ( Click the link to find out!

Beans can help us live longer (Increased Lifespan from Beans control our blood sugars (Beans and the Second Meal Effect and help prevent and treat diabetes (Preventing Prediabetes By Eating More and Diabetics Should Take Their Pulses

What about the purported “anti-nutrient” phytates in beans? You mean the Phytates for the Prevention of Cancer ( the Phytates for Rehabilitating Cancer Cells ( and the Phytates for the Treatment of Cancer? ( Phytate-containing foods may also help protect our bones (Phytates for the Prevention of Osteoporosis

Why not just take cholesterol pills every day for the rest of our life? See my videos Statin Muscle Toxicity ( and Statin Cholesterol Drugs and Invasive Breast Cancer (

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