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Sprouts have been heralded for their incredible nutrition and medicinal benefits for a very long time, and now it looks as though one of the staple foods of many far eastern cultures and India is another cancerous tumor inhibitor. Mung bean sprouts also improve endurance, and enhance all three doshas (body types), according to Ayurvedic medicine. Is there anything this little wonder can’t do?
A Nurse Health study shows that eating sprouted mung beans as well as other legumes can reduce the chances of getting colon cancers and protects the bowels. For the elderly, eating just 20 grams daily of mung beans or other nutritious legumes can reduce death rates by 8%, and people of all ages can enjoy better heart health, with a 22% lower cardiac arrest rate from eating fiber-rich foods.
So why sprout your beans? Once you start the germination process, the anti-nutrients in plants melt away and the life-giving properties – vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients etc., expand like a star being born. You are eating a tiny little plant when you eat a sprout – and when it is most dense in nutrition in perhaps its entire life cycle.