Beans, Beans, Good for Your Heart . . .

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. . . The more you eat, the more you . . . well, live longer actually.

Headlines today are telling us that eating a Mediterranean diet full of beans, fruit, vegetables, and olive oil is miraculous for our health. Wait, so you mean fruits and vegetables are good for you? Who knew!?!?

Some of the (perhaps really not so startling after all) advantages of a vegetarian diet highlighted by recent studies include:

• More pulses (beans, peas, lentils etc) and less red meat = risk of cancer reduced by 12 percent
• More olive oil and less butter = lower incidence of heart disease, and cancer reduced by 9 percent
• Broccoli has also been found to reduce the risk of prostate cancer

Beans on toast anyone? Or maybe one of the recipes we shared the other day? Tuck in and live long!

Tags: health, vegan, vegetarian

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