Re: Result of eating more beans

  MetroPed wrote:

> To whom it may concern,  I realize this is very anecdotal but this personal
> observation may be of interest...
>
> For about the last year I've significantly increased the percentage of
> 'beans and lentils' in my diet.  Overall calorie intake and exercise have
> remained the same.  Noticed I don't get that drowsy 'low blood sugar' effect
> an hour or 2 after I've eaten.  More importantly,  my weight has dropped 12%
> without 'dieting'.   As I said this is very anecdotal but may be of interest
> to some.
>
> Note 1: I'm boiling dry beans with no sugar added.
> Note 2: Also noticed that after about 2 month I no longer had that 'bowel
> distress' problem folks associate with beans.

Very interesting. Hard to believe. The music maker in beans is a 
family of compounds called "oligosaccharides" which we can't digest no 
matter how hard we try. We have no means to break them down to simpler 
sugars. No enzymes. The only way is to add them to our foods, as in 
using the product called "Beano."

If you've found a way to do that, you're the first human in history to 
do so. Boiling beans with sugar is not a broadly-used way of cooking them.

Pastorio