You don’t become a super food by being average.
Behold, the oh-so-healthy, nutritious bean.
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The latest data from almost 89,000 premenopausal women followed for 20 years found that the source of protein matters—while red meat intake was linked to more breast cancer, legumes were not. The research suggests that eating a serving of beans each day in place of meat could lower breast cancer risk by 15% for all women, 19% for premenopausal women.
Plus, meat protein can’t deliver fiber like beans can. Meatless recipes, anyone?
A recent pooling of study results linked eating beans to a 17% lower risk of colon and rectal cancers. In a study of kidney cancer, people who ate more beans had less risk of the disease. And in another study, only the women who ate the most beans, vegetables, fish, and olive oil had the fewest breast cancers.
Studies: Public Library of Science One 2013; 8(6):e67335; American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2013; 97:1036-43; BMC Cancer 21012; 12(1):113-24.