chickpeas

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Chickpeas are a legume, also known as garbanzo beans, Bengal gram, chana, and other names.

Chickpeas for Longevity

“Longevity legumes” such as chickpeas have been used in traditional medicine to treat high blood pressure and diabetes. They contain many nutrients, antioxidants, phytochemicals, and phytates. Chickpeas contain five times more the antioxidant content when sprouted.

Benefits of Chickpeas

Including chickpeas in one’s diet may reduce risk of the type of prediabetes known as metabolic syndrome. Chickpeas are anti-inflammatory and contain an abundance of non-heme iron—the safest form of iron. Chickpeas, along with other legumes, have been responsible for dropping C-reactive protein levels. Eating beans, chickpeas, split peas, or lentils at least three times a week was associated in one study with 33% less risk of colorectal polyps.

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Food Synergy

Combining certain foods together may be more beneficial then eating them separately.

How Not to Die: An Animated Summary

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The Hispanic Paradox: Why do Latinos Live Longer?

Time to spill the beans on why U.S. Hispanics tend to live the longest—despite less education on average, a higher poverty rate, and worse access to health care.

Gut Dysbiosis: Starving our Microbial Self

Inadequate consumption of prebiotics—the fiber and resistant starch concentrated in unprocessed plant foods—can cause a disease-promoting imbalance in our gut microbiome.

Slow Your Beating Heart: Beans vs Exercise

A cup a day of beans, chickpeas, or lentils for three months may slow one’s resting heart rate as much as 250 hours on a treadmill.

Brown, Black, Purple and Red Unlike White on Rice

Brown, Black, Purple & Red Unlike White on Rice

White rice is missing more than just fiber, vitamins, and minerals. Phytonutrients, such as gamma oryzanol, in brown rice may help explain the clinical benefits, and naturally pigmented rice varieties may be even healthier.

Food as Medicine: Preventing & Treating the Most Dreaded Diseases with Diet

Dr. Greger has scoured the world’s scholarly literature on clinical nutrition and developed this new presentation based on the latest in cutting edge research exploring the role diet may play in preventing, arresting, and even reversing some of our most feared causes of death and disability.

How to Treat High Blood Pressure with Diet

The first-line treatment for hypertension is lifestyle modification, which often includes the DASH diet. What is it and how can it be improved?

The Safety of Heme vs. Non-Heme Iron

Heme iron, the type found predominantly in blood and muscle, is absorbed better than the non-heme iron that predominates in plants, but may increase the risk of cancer, stroke, heart disease, and metabolic syndrome.

Cooked Beans or Sprouted Beans?

How do canned versus germinated beans (such as sprouted lentils) compare when it comes to protecting brain cells and destroying melanoma, kidney, and breast cancer cells.

Preventing Alzheimer’s with Turmeric

Rural India has the lowest validated Alzheimer’s rates in the world. Is it due to the turmeric in their curry, or their largely plant-based diets?

Beans, Beans, They’re Good For Your Heart

Legumes such as lentils, chickpeas, beans and split peas may reduce cholesterol so much that consumers may be able to get off their cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, but to profoundly alter heart disease risk we may have to more profoundly alter our diet.