After-40 Nutrition: The Surprising Health Benefits of Beans
By Samantha Heller, MS, RD Author of Get Smart: Samantha Heller’s Nutrition Prescription for Boosting Brain Power & Optimizing Total Body HealthClinical Nutrition Coordinator at the Center for Cancer Care, Griffin Hospital Beans are a super healthy, super versatile and super affordable food. Beans are high in antioxidants, fiber, protein, B vitamins, iron, magnesium, potassium, copper and zinc. Eating beans regularly may decrease the risk of diabetes, heart disease, colorectal cancer, and helps with weight management. Beans are hearty, helping you feel full so you will tend to eat less. As we get older, we need fewer calories and beans are a great way to boost the nutrition power of your meal without boosting the calories. A half-cup of beans has only about 100 calories. What Beans Can Do for You All legumes such as kidney, black, white and red beans, chick peas and lentils confer health benefits. Including beans in your diet seve...
