Legumes Can Lower Your LDL Cholesterol

In the booklet, The New Healthy Eating & Weight Management Guide: Science-Based Strategies for a Bettter Life, Dorene D. Robinson, RD CDN (2012) promotes legumes because they have been shown to lower LDL Cholesterol. There are many types of legumes to choose from:

• Black beans
• Black-eyes peas
• Garbanzo (chickpeas)
• Great northern beans
• Kidney beans
• Lentils & split peas
• Limas
• Baby limas
• Pinto beans
• Red beans
• Small white beans
• Soybeans

Robinson teaches "that legumes are high in fiber and protein and low in fat." She continues, "depending on the bean, a fair source of zinc, calcium, or iron." Among other things, legumes can "help prevent heart disease, colon cancer, and type 2 diabetes" (p. 11). 

Below is a link on how to prepare pinto beans in a crockpot (and be sure to skip the bacon ingredient it calls for!). 

http://wegotreal.com/crockpot-pinto-beans/