Get Healthy Now with Denise Thomson, Health Benefits of Eating Legumes

Good morning to Get Healthy Now with Denise Thomson, Certified Health and Wellness Coach, Nurse, Fitness Trainer, Educator, Speaker and Published Bestselling Author.

Happy New Year!

New Years Resolutions:

Experiences over the Holidays: Gatherings, Foods, People, Flatulation, Embarrassment 

Definition of Flatus, Flatulation, Fart: Flatus, Fart, Wind, Gas.Whatever you call it, everyone does it. It's a natural part of life. Don't hold back. Here, Clare Collins, Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle shares some facts about flatus (and what happens when you try to hold on) in a piece first pulsihed in The Conversation (Australian edition) entitled "What Happens When You Hold in a Fart".

How much gas is normal? Research determined that after they tested 10 volunteers who participated in the study. They all had a rectal catheter inserted, so the gas production could get measured, tested, over 24 hour period. Men and women produced about the same amount.

Fibre and Flatus

Where do the Gases come from?

Foods that may cause gas

Sugars

Raffinose

Lactose

Fructose

Sugar from Alcohol

Starches: potatoes, corn, noodles, wheat, exception: Rice

Fibre: soluble - insoluble

Bring on the Beans: Research found these results with a group of 121 type 2 diabetics (Dr. David Jenkins and colleagues)

1 cup (70 oz) of cooked legumes (beans, chickpeas or lentils) - lowered blood pressure, blood sugars A1c, cholesterol.

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Conclusion: Holding back flatulation can be dangerous, extends the stomach, feel bad, build up in intestines, 

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