Posted on 01/06/2024 1:37:25 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Adding a cup of beans to the usual diet enhances the gut microbiome and regulates host markers associated with metabolic obesity and colorectal cancer, according to a study.
Xiaotao Zhang, M.D., Ph.D. and colleagues conducted a low-risk, noninvasive dietary intervention targeting the gut microbiota of obese surveillance patients with a history of colorectal neoplasia. After a four-week equilibrium, 55 patients were randomly assigned to continue their usual diet without beans or to add a daily cup of study beans to their usual diet, with immediate crossover at eight weeks.
The researchers found that 87 percent of patients completed the 16-week trial, which demonstrated an increase in diversity and shifts in multiple bacteria indicative of prebiotic efficacy on intervention, including increased Faecalibacterium, Eubacterium, and Bifidobacterium.
Parallel shifts were seen in nutrient and microbiome-derived metabolites in the circulating metabolome, including increased pipecolic acid and decreased indole; upon returning to the usual diet, these shifts regressed. Within eight weeks, there were no significant changes seen in circulating lipoproteins; however, there were increases observed in proteomic biomarkers of intestinal and systemic inflammatory response and fibroblast-growth factor-19 and a decrease in interleukin-10 receptor-α.
"Adding one cup of navy beans to the diet on all or most days of the week was a safe, scalable dietary strategy to modulate the gut microbiome of high-risk patients, who may be unwilling or unable to sustain more dramatic changes to their usual dietary pattern without substantial support," the authors write.
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Great - and about one hour later, my wife’d have to open all the windows and pray nobody had a lit candle in the house.
BM’s seem more regular and stools less dense with eating beans the past few days. Seems to work and good thing I live alone. LOL
Everyone sing along! “Beans, beans, the musical fruit...”
a full cup? ever try to eat, much less Digest, a full cup of any type of beans? maybe beans with salsa, sour creme and quac. now I’m hungry.
Wait a minute!!
The Greenie Weenies have been saying for years that Cow Farts cause Global Warming. Recently a study says people breathing causes Global warming. And NOW the medical experts want people to eat one cup of beans a day.
So between breathing and eating beans, PEOPLE’s biological processes will be the major cause of global warming.
Save the Cows, Eat More BEANS!!!!
Doc: What seems to be the problem?
Guy: My butt hurts.
Doc: Your butt hurts? Where does it hurt?
Guy: All around the entrance.
Doc: Well, actually that's the exit; but if you keep referring to it as the entrance your butt's going to keep hurting!
Good for your heart too ...
Better than prune juice?
I’m glad you posted that video, because if you hadn’t, I would’ve.
Not eating navy beans since I was in school and the lunch lady served them to me.
Beans, beans, good for your heart ...
For any diabetics out there: try substituting beans for the likes of pasta, rice, or white potatoes. You may find that your blood glucose ends up being better regulated.
This is really just a way of saying, “Beans, beans, they’re good for your heart; they make you fart...”
Boston lives on the beans, and Long Island lives on the sound.
Dammit. I paused for one minute while typing and you beat me.
Had I typed the whole rhyme, you’d have beat me.
Beans, beans, good for your heart
The more you eat, the more you fart.
The more you fart, the better you feel
So let’s eat beans at every meal!
We just finished a nice dinner of my homemade navy bean soup and corn muffins. 😉
“Everyone sing along! “Beans, beans, the musical fruit...””
My understanding is that they’re also good for one’s heart :)
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