Beans feed you twice
We’ve known for decades that beans have an exceptionally low glycemic index.
You give someone cooked beans, peas, or lentils and you don’t even get half the blood sugar spike that you get with the same amount of carbs in the form of bread, pasta, or potatoes. as your bean to rice ratio increases from left to right from more rice with some beans to more like beans-with-somerice, you can see these trends towards improving cardiometabolic risk factors. Substituting for one serving of white rice was associated with a of metabolic syndrome, or pre-diabetes.
