Apparently, simply adding a serving of beans to your daily diet can help you lose weight — even if you do nothing else to alter your diet, the study says.
Researchers analyzed 21 previous clinical trials involving 940 adults. The participants had a single serving of pulses — meaning dried seeds of legumes, such as beans, chickpeas, lentils, and peas — added to their diet, and didn’t make efforts to restrict or reduce their other food intake.
They found that the participants who had eaten their daily serving of beans felt 31 percent fuller, leading them to eat less food overall.
Those who ate 130g of pulses each day ended up losing an average of three-quarters of a pound over six weeks.
So beans, lentils and peas help you feel fuller and lose weight — even if you don’t change any other part of your diet.
They’re basically magical and we should all be eating them every day.
Source: IRNA