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"Lima beans, black beans, lentils, navy beans, kidney beans, white beans, aduki, chickpeas, and pinto beans, like soybeans, contain important isoflavones and protease inhibitors. beans, because they do not contain all eight essential amino acids, are not considered a complete protein by themselves; however, by combining any dried bean with any whole grain, you will have a complete protein. This natural combination is found in many traditional diets throughout the world— tofu with rice in Asia, tempeh and rice in Indonesia, black beans and corn in South America, lentils and rice in India." - Donald R. Yance, j r.,C.N., M.H., A.H.G., with Arlene Valentine, Herbal Medicine, Healing and Cancer: A Comprehensive Program for Prevention and Treatment (Get the book.)

"Legumes (beans) including soybeans, tofu, lentils, peas, chickpeas, navy beans, kidney beans, black beans, string beans, and others. Dried beans should be soaked overnight. Pour off the water and rinse before cooking. Canned beans often contain added sugar or other potential allergens. Some cooked beans packaged in glass jars, sold at the health food store, contain no sugar. Read labels. Bean dips without sugar, lemon, or additives are OK. Canned soups include split pea and lentil soup (without additives). Vegetables Use a wide variety. All vegetables except corn are permitted." - Alan Gaby, Preventing and Reversing Osteoporosis: What You Can Do About Bone Loss (Get the book.)

"High in phytic acid: Black or green gram beans, com, great northern beans, haricot beans, kidney beans, lima beans, pinto beans, red mexican beans, brown rice, soybeans, white beans, wild rice. "Hard" tap waters, mineral waters. Note: Foods labeled "poor" contain naturally occurring chemicals that reduce the cUgestibiiity of the calcium. You need not shun them entirely, as most are good sources of other nutrients. Merely avoid reliance on them as your primary calcium source. They may still provide some usable calcium." - Steve Carper, Milk Is Not for Every Body: Living with Lactose Intolerance (Get the book.)

"Look for the big plastic bins in the bulk-food aisle. beans are a delicious—and inexpensive—staple of a healthy, plant-based diet. Black-eyed peas Green lentils Red lentils Black beans Kidney beans Pinto beans Navy beans • Split peas • Popcorn Other Proteins • Tofu • Tempeh Organic Nondairy Milks • Unsweetened Silk Soymilk (www.silksoymilk.com) • Strawberry Banana Vitasoy soymilk (www.vitasoy-usa.com) • Edensoy Carob Soymilk (www.edenfoods.com) Extras for Cooking • Annie's Organic yellow mustard (www.annies." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Soybeans, chickpeas (also called garbanzo beans), lima beans, other beans, and peas are excellent sources of isoflavones. And although soybeans are a rich source of phytoestrogens, other legumes are even better sources of genistein and daidzein.37, 38 Anasazi, brown, black, navy, pinto, and turtle beans contain almost similar amounts of genistein as soybeans, with much less fat.39 Most beans contain 1 percent fat, compared with 18 to 20 percent fat in soy. This breaks down to 15 percent saturated fat, 23 percent monounsaturated fats, and 58 percent polyunsaturated fatty acids." - National Women's Health Network, The Truth About Hormone Replacement Therapy: How to Break fee from the Medical Myths of Menopause (Get the book.)

"One half cup of the following cooked or sprouted beans equals one exchange: Black-eyed peas Chick peas Garbanzo beans Kidney beans Lentils Lima beans Pinto beans Soybeans, including tofu (omit one fat exchange) Split peas Other dried beans and peas Today, the legumes are a mainstay in most diets of the world. Legumes are second only to grains in supplying calories and protein to the world's population. Compared with grains, they supply about the same number of total calories, but usually provide 2-4 times as much protein." - Michael T. Murray, ND, Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 2 (Get the book.)

"A variety of other beans can be used to make wonderful ethnic dishes and include black beans, adzuki, pinto beans, chickpeas, mung beans, lentils, and lima beans. Grains and beans are your best source of proteins. "If you eat meat, I recommend eating only small quantities of it, no more than 3 ounces per day. Three ounces fits into the palm of your hand. It should be only from animals that are free-range and grass-fed, with no hormones or antibiotics. A good way to get animal protein is to make soup stock with chicken or fish bones." - Dr. Gary Null, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Natural Healing (Get the book.)

"Contraindications: Do not regularly eat raw soybeans, soy flour, or protein powder made from raw, un-roasted, or unfermented beans, because they can damage the pancreas over time (see Safety Issues with Raw Soybeans).40'41 • Drug interactions: None known. Safety Issues with Raw Soybeans For years, soy skeptics have been discussing two potentially harmful components in soybeans that may interfere with protein digestion and mineral absorption. Raw soybeans contain trypsin inhibitors, compounds that interfere with the metabolism of protein by the pancreatic enzyme trypsin." - Robert S. McCaleb, Evelyn Leigh, and Krista Morien, The Encyclopedia of Popular Herbs (Get the book.)

"A variety of other beans can be used to make wonderful ethnic dishes and include black beans, adzuki, pinto beans, chickpeas, mung beans, lentils, and lima beans. Grains and beans are your best source of proteins. "If you eat meat, I recommend eating only small quantities of it, no more than 3 ounces per day. Three ounces fits into the palm of your hand. It should be only from animals that are free-range and grass-fed, with no hormones or antibiotics. A good way to get animal protein is to make soup stock with chicken or fish bones." - Dr. Gary Null, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Natural Healing (Get the book.)

"Wholegrains, green leafy vegetables, soya beans, nuts and milk are the best sources of magnesium. Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid) Food sources include wholegrains, broad beans, egg yolk and liver. Too much alcohol, coffee, tea and stress increase the need for this vitamin. Possible symptoms of a Vitamin B5 deficiency include fatigue, fluid retention, sore feet, sleep disturbances, irritability and muscle cramps. Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) Studies suggest that asthmatics may have a greater need for this vitamin than most people and further details of this are given on pages 1 14-5." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Five to ten percent beans, including aduki beans, lentils, chick-peas, navy beans, pinto, black beans, soybeans, and tofu and tempeh. Every day, small amounts of sea vegetables, such as hijiki, nori, arame, kombu, and wakame seaweeds. Sea vegetables are very rich in minerals. Every day, soups, such as miso soup and tamari broth. Very easy to make, very delicious soups. Then, small amount of fish is okay, but white fish that is low in fat, such as flounder, cod, and haddock." - Tom Monte, The Way of Hope: Michio Kushi's Anti-Aids program (Get the book.)

"Foods like 100 percent whole-grain breads and cereals, soybeans, lima beans, avocado, beets, and raisins help lower blood pressure and reduce arrhythmias by dilating (expanding) the arteries. Get 400 milligrams a day. A serving of lima beans contains about 100 milligrams, 'A cup of spinach contains 80 milligrams, twelve cashews contain 50 milligrams, thirty peanuts contain 50 milligrams. þ Foods with soy protein. Getting 25 grams a day of soy protein in foods like tofu and other soybean products decreases your bad LDL cholesterol and triglyceride levels. þ Stanols and sterols." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"Using software to enhance the light between the beans, he discovered so much light between the sections that it appeared as though the bean were whole again. Even though the string beans had been severed, the individual sections carried on their communication to the rest of the vegetable.20 This may be the mechanism accounting for the feeling described by amputees with phantom limb sensations. The light of the body still communicates with the energetic "footprint" of the amputated limb." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"For example, beans are a rich source of protein that contains lysine, but are generally deficient in methionine. And while rice, a food that is regular fare for vegetarians, contains plenty of methionine, it lacks lysine. Both methionine and lysine are essential amino acids required for the biosynthesis of L-carnitine. So a vegetarian diet that relies upon lots of beans or rice can be quite lacking when it comes to these two essential amino acids." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Animal protein provides more satisfaction than grains, cheese, or beans because it is 60 to 90 percent protein per serving versus grain, cheese, and beans, which are 15 to 25 percent protein per serving. Obesity is a disease of inadequate nutrition. We eat until we satisfy our nutritional needs (hunger). With lean meat and fresh produce, we can do this in smaller caloric packages than with grains and dairy. When you starve yourself to a lower weight, you lose fat, bone, and muscle in the process. Increasing lean fat-burning muscle mass is essential to fitness." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, green beans, cooked black-eyed peas, and baked beans also have a high folate content. Because the body can't store much folic acid, you must constantly replenish your supplies, so make these vegetables a staple of your prenatal diet. The prenatal vitamin is no substitute for good nutrition. Joel Fuhrman cautions against relying too much on vitamins, especially during pregnancy. "We've turned everything into a pill," he said." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"GRAIN/BEAN/RICE/NOODLE SIDE DISHES Red beans and Rice Indian Rice South of the Border Rice* Bulgur Primavera* Cheese Grits Asian Peanut Noodles Wild Rice Orange Almond Rice RED beans AND RICE Yield: 4 servings Calories: 80 1/2 pound red beans 1/4 pound ham, chopped 1 medium onion, finely chopped 1 stalk celery, chopped 1/2 bell pepper, chopped salt and pepper to taste 1. Wash beans. Soak overnight in water. 2. Drain beans and place in a large pot. Cover with water until pot is 3/4 full. 3. Add ham, onion, celery, and bell pepper. Cook uncovered over medium-high heat for 1 hour." - C. Wayne Callaway, Catherine Whitney, Kristine Mehring, Surviving With AIDS: A Comprehensive Program of Nutritional Co-Therapy (Get the book.)

"Legumes and beans such as navy, pinto, kidney, black-eyed peas and others are high in carbs. They are good for us to eat and are high in vegetable protein but they are not a complete protein and are missing some of the eight essential amino acids. As my mother used to say, "Eat your beans with corn bread. It makes a complete protein." Since cancer is present in my life, I seldom eat legumes because of the carbs, but legumes and beans are very healthy." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"The farmwife comes home with three children, and they put some beans and other items on the stove to cook. After a while, they serve us at the kitchen table, placing a small portion of beans on our plates. But there seems to be a problem of some sort. Standing behind me, I notice a tall slender black woman who seems to be with us. It seems the farmwife doesn't care for her. We wait. As I sit there, I look at my brother and then at the black woman; it suddenly occurs to me that this is a dream. Aware now, I stand up and want to know what this means." - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.)

"If it was possible to image twice as many beans, the results would have reached statistical significance (through what is called power analysis in statistics)." In other words, we showed a large effect, but we needed more seeds just to satisfy the scientific definition of "significant." For a few moments our readers believed that they'd actually seen the beans glowing. As part of the protocol, once we begin sending intention, I would call Mark—the cue for him to turn on a fluorescent light." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Beans are a major food source in most of the world, but have somehow been forgotten in most North American diets. beans are rich sources of antioxidants, fiber, trace minerals, and phytoestrogens, and they should be a regular part of your diet. Phytosterols You've probably never heard of them, but phytosterols are plant compounds that can improve estrogen metabolism, lower cholesterol absorption from your food, and lower cholesterol production in your liver. I use them a lot in my practice in lieu of Lipitor or other lipid-lowering medications and if women are having breast tenderness." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Since cancer is present in my life, I seldom eat legumes because of the carbs, but legumes and beans are very healthy. What I do is look in the book called Eat Right For Your Type, that I mentioned earlier, to find out what type of beans agree with my body, and then I know for sure. When I do eat beans occasionally, I only eat small amounts. When fighting my cancer, I didn't eat legumes at all. Remember, since they are medium to high in carbs your body will use them as a form of sugar. So watch your intake of legumes while fighting cancer, sorry. Keep smiling and think positive." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"Animal protein provides more satisfaction than grains, cheese, or beans because it is 60 to 90 percent protein per serving versus grain, cheese, and beans, which are 15 to 25 percent protein per serving. Obesity is a disease of inadequate nutrition. We eat until we satisfy our nutritional needs (hunger). With lean meat and fresh produce, we can do this in smaller caloric packages than with grains and dairy. When you starve yourself to a lower weight, you lose fat, bone, and muscle in the process. Increasing lean fat-burning muscle mass is essential to fitness." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"In Latin America, corn is traditionally eaten with beans; each plant is deficient in an essential amino acid that happens to be abundant in the other, so together corn and beans form a balanced diet in the absence of meat. Similarly, corn in these countries is traditionally ground or soaked with limestone, which makes available a B vitamin in the corn, the absence of which would otherwise lead to the deficiency disease called pellagra." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Think three for beans, nuts, and seeds. Three servings per day, that is. A serving equals Vi cup of cooked beans; 2 tablespoons of sunflower, sesame, or pumpkin seeds; 2 tablespoons of almond butter; or Vi cup of nuts. Beans are an excellent source of protein, not to mention slow-burning carbohydrates. You have a wide variety to choose from. Look in your supermarket for kidney, cannelini, lima, mung, red, soy, adzuki, black, pinto, and navy beans, as well as lentils, chickpeas, and pigeon peas. As for nuts, research has shown that they can help prevent cardiovascular disease." - Richard P. Brown, M.D., and Patricia L. Gerbarg, M.D., The Rhodiola Revolution: Transform Your Health with the Herbal Breakthrough of the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Berries (blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, black currants, cherries), nuts (walnuts, sunflower seeds), goji berries (also known in Chinatown as wolfberry), fruits (pomegranates, grapes, oranges, plums, pineapples, lemons, apricots, dates, kiwis, Clementines, grapefruits), beans (pinto, soy), vegetables (kale, red cabbage, peppers, parsley, artichokes, Brussels sprouts, spinach, red beets), cereals (barley, millet, oats, corn), and ginger are all very high in antioxidants." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Prebiotics include inulin, which is in onions, chichory root and dandelions; oligosaccharides, which is in artichokes, leeks and asparagus; beta-glucan, which is in seaweed, oats and barley; pectin, which is in apples and apricots and resistant starch, which is in raw bananas, potatoes and beans. Prebiotics are present in our daily diets; however, in very low amounts in the Western diet. See Chapter 5 for more on prebiotics. do you need to host over 400 different species of microbes in your intestines?" - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

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