Posted on 02/05/2009 3:09:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
Studying the anticancer benefits of dry beans, scientists have discovered that different market classes of beans help in reducing the risk of mammary cancer.
For the study, researchers at Colorado State University studied the anticancer activity of six market classes of bean including; small red, great northern, navy, black, dark red and white kidney bean in the diet of laboratory animals.
They also evaluated whether the level of antioxidants or seed coat pigments in the bean were related to mammary cancer.
The researchers fed cooked dry bean powder from the six market classes and a control group without beans in the diet to laboratory rats in a standard preclinical model for breast cancer.
The dry bean powders were also evaluated for antioxidant capacity, phenolic and flavonoid content; all factors thought to be associated with anticancer activity.
After chemical analysis of the beans, it was found that total phenolic and flavonoid content varied widely among market classes and the differences were strongly associated with seed coat colour; where coloured beans had ten times or greater phenolic and flavonoid content compared to white beans.
Antioxidant capacity of the beans also varied widely among dry bean market classes and were highly related to seed coat colour, where coloured beans had approximately two to three times greater antioxidant capacity than white beans.
Dry bean consumption from every market class reduced cancer incidence (number of animals with one tumour) and tumour number per animal compared to the control group.
Cancer incidence was reduced from 95 percent in the control group to 67 percent in animals fed beans. The average number of malignant tumours was also reduced from 3.2 in the control group to 1.4 tumours per animal in the group fed bean.
No associations were observed between phenolic content, flavonoid content and antioxidant capacity with cancer among the bean market classes.
The findings clearly suggest that the anticancer activity in dry bean is not associated with seed color or antioxidant capacity.
Researchers are now investigating the mechanisms and molecules that contribute to the anticancer properties of dry bean.
Clinical trials are also underway to determine if bean in the diet of humans are associated with biomarkers for cancer incidence.
Results from the study were published in the recent issue of the journal Crop Science.
In before the fart jokes.
Well, my family looks to be taking the offensive against cancer, then. My wife, politically conservative, though disturbingly hippie-like at times, has me eating beans of every stripe on a regular basis. And lentils. For crying out loud, I’m eating lentils.
Yep! Homemade Red Beans and Rice with slices of homemade bread slathered in real butter. Yum!
Too dam crunchy!
Fight cancer and cause global warming, impressive.
>> For crying out loud, I’m eating lentils.
Lentils are tasty! I like beans too.
Unfortunately, I like steak and pretty much ANY kind of fat even more. And beer. Say, I wonder if you can brew beer out of pinto beans or lentils? Kidney beans maybe?
About a week ago I made a crock of 15 bean soup with the shank of a Honey Baked Ham and a Vidalia onion, served with my mom's corn bread for soppin'. There were no leftovers.
That soup will make you hurt yourself.....
Maybe the cancer cells are “Expelled”. They might be on to something here.
Dry Beans Can Help Fight Cancer, but cause considerable volumes of the green house gas methane.
Oh, I get a lot of good stuff too. I’ve pretty much given up beer, voluntarily. The “health food” my wife has brought in over this first year of marriage simply means I have red meat only 5 nights a week, as opposed to 7.
Now that sounds soooo good! Especially with the corn bread! Nothing like a ham hock and an onion smothered in beans for hours.
>> Beer-Battered String Beans
Sign me up!
>> The “health food” my wife has brought in over this first year of marriage simply means I have red meat only 5 nights a week, as opposed to 7.
It’s kind of the same in our household, except we both like seafood, so we have that pretty often. Mrs. Tick is a good cook and she cooks healthy stuff that we enjoy.
I’m a lucky man. If I wasn’t married, left to my own devices, I’d weigh 450 pounds (95 pounds of which would be tumors).
Well, I Atkinsed off 150+ lbs before I got married, so now I eat the health food, and am just careful with the portions of the good food, and am finding I can maintain weight and health and still get steak.
==> “In before the fart jokes.” <==
Bsure to serve beans with with beer, to ensure the proper balance of vitamin P and vitamin F.
Beans...beans....
good for your heart
The more you eat
The more you fart
The more you fart
The better you feel
Eat beans at every meal.
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