1-30 FB Healthy Beans

 I’ve heard all my life that beans are very good for the body. In fact when you go to grocery stores in the genre of Whole Foods or the Boise Co-op or retail stores that are health oriented, you always get recommendations to eat beans and lentils from people who work in these venues and are supposed to be knowledgeable. Well, Diana Caldwell of the Idaho Bean Commission tells us about Dr. Janice Rueda of the American Pulse Association who is working with them to generate research funding in order to back up such claims. “We have a new executive director based in Moscow where she works out of the US Pea and Lentil Council offices and she will be speaking about the cooperation between the US Dry Bean Council and the US Pea and Lentil Council in order to raise enough research funds so that we can have something to base our health claims and disease prevention claims on. She will be a lobbyist for industry and government in trying to raise funds for that research.