Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a great photo, as always, Tina. Beans actually contain many and high concentrations of anti-nutritional factors and toxins including: - Protease inhibitors, which inhibit the activity of trypsin, chemotropism and other proteases. Their presence results in impaired growth and poor food utilization. - Amylase inhibitors inhibit amylases. Amylases are important in breaking down the structure of carbohydrates; they hydrolyze sugar and starches. Amylase inhibitors diminish digestion and uptake of carbohydrates. - Lectins or humagglutinins - glycoproteins mainly found in legumes: beans, peas, lentils, which result in poor food utilization and impaired growth. - Saponins, which are directly toxic. - Cyanogens, which are also directly toxic. Beano works because it supplements your own enzymes that are inhibited by the beans, in addition to providing enzymes you do not produce, which allows you to digest components in the beans that are otherwise indigestible. In people who have diets that are reliant on beans, their gastro-intestinal system adapts to the presence of toxins and indigestible components, and they have different bacterial communities, all of which decreases the gas we might get when going to an all-bean diet, but those people do not miraculously extract more nutrients or evergy from them than we can. They often show signs of serious amino acid, trace element and other deficiency disorders. In African comunities that I visited, where a low-intensity fish farm was installed, the addition of a couple of hundred grams of animal protein a week increased the life expectancy by over a decade for the normal population and 3.5 years for untreated HIV-positive people. Correlation between bean consumption and length of life in some parts of the world has been shown to be confounded by the starvation effect, where lengthy periods of survival on _just adequate_ or slightly below-requirement energy intake increases longevity. I like beans, and eat them sparingly, but they are only okay in terms of nutrients and energy output. To bring this on topic, I even grow beans, and photograph them with my Leica: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/75+Summilux/borlotti+beans.jpg.html End bean rant. Marty On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > Beans are good and healthy and nutritious, but they do have side > effects...smelly side effects. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > > YNWA > > > > On Dec 17, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > >> PESO: >> >> On the LUG gallery: >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/tinamanley/61953_69218-Edit.jpg.html >> >> or on PBase: >> >> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/140375478 >> >> Is anybody else getting broken links with the PBase site? >> >> Comments and criticisms greatly appreciated. >> >> Tina >> >> -- >> Tina Manley, ASMP >> www.tinamanley.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information