[Music] legums may be the most important predictor of survival in older people from around the globe they looked at five different cohorts in Japan Sweden Greece and Australia and of all the food factors they looked at only one was associated with a longer lifespan across the board legum intake whether it was the Japanese their soy the sweds eating their brown beans and peas or those in the Mediterranean eating lentils chickpeas and white beans only for legums intake was the result plausible consistent and statistically significant from the data across all the populations combined we're talking an
8% reduction in risk of death for every 20 grams increase in daily legums intake that's just like two tablespoons worth so if a can of beans is 250 g and you get 8% lower mortality forever every 20 gram maybe if we eat a can a day we'll live forever let's find out if you want to increase your lifespan eat beans if however you're suicidal and want to decrease your lifespan a bean free diet may increase the risk of death so having arrived at the one dietary Fountain of Youth what's the number one reason people aren't
clamoring for them fear of flatulence so is that the choice we're left with breaking wind or breaking down passing gas or passing on turns out that people's concerns about excessive flatulence from eating beans may be exaggerated add a half a cup of beans every day to people's diet for months and what happens what's the number one symptom nothing the vast majority of people experienced no symptoms at all though a few percent did report increased flatulence so it may occur in some individuals but not all people are affected and even among those that were 70% or
more of the P participants who experienced flatulence felt it dissipated no pun intended by the second or third week of bean consumption so we just got to stick to it and you know a small percentage reported increased flatulence on the control diet without any beans people have preconceived notions about beans such that just the expectation of flatulence from eating beans May influence their perceptions of having gas they didn't actually measure farts in the study they just asked people what their perception of the amount of gas they had was and we know from previous studies that
you give someone a product labeled to contain something that may cause intestinal distress and it causes more intestinal distress whether it actually contains the ingredient or not in other words just thinking they were eating it caused digestive distress or the perception of it to a proportion of persons so people thinking beans are going to cause gas may just be more likely to notice the gas they normally have either way it tends to go away after a few weeks of daily Bean consumption people perceive their flatulence occurrence returns to normal levels in this other study where
they added more than a cup of kidney beans to people's daily diets the research subjects reported that the discomfort they initially felt within the first day or two of adding beans quickly disappeared so again stick with it bottom line no pun intended an increasing body of research in the latest dietary guidelines supports the benefits of a plant-based diet and legum specifically in the reduction of chronic disease risks in some people it may result in more flatulence initially however doctors should emphasize that it will decrease over time if we just keep it up and the nutritional
attributes of beans in the diet outweighs the potential for transitory discomfort the long-term health benefits of bean consumption are great and indeed eating beans in the long term may make your term on Earth even [Music] longer e
