"My comment or question would be do you get the same benefits
from a1/2 cup chicken noodle soup as you do with 1/2 cup pinto
beans? If so what about the amount of sodium in store bought
soup as high blood pressure would be the concern from... The
bean song we loved to sing as kids may be silly but it’s true.
Eating beans regularly is good for your heart, and you don’t
need to eat a hill of them to benefit. A study published last
November in the Journal of Nutrition suggests having just 1⁄2
cup of cooked pinto beans daily might lower cholesterol.
Researchers from the Brainerd Veterans Administration Clinic in
Brainerd, Minnesota, and the USDA’s Agricultural Research
Service (ARS) in Grand Forks, North Dakota, recruited 40 adults
with a cluster of conditions—including low HDL cholesterol, a
high waist-to-hip ratio and high triglycerides, blood pressure
and blood sugar levels—all symptoms associated with increased
risk for heart disease. They randomly assigned them, and a
similar group of 40 healthy adults, to i