{"id":7051,"date":"2016-04-08T18:54:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T18:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/08\/eating-legumes-may-aid-in-weight-loss\/"},"modified":"2016-04-08T18:54:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T18:54:06","slug":"eating-legumes-may-aid-in-weight-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/08\/eating-legumes-may-aid-in-weight-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating legumes may aid in weight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers examined data from nearly two dozen trials and found that participants who ate about three quarters of a cup of legumes every day lost about three quarters of a pound more than those who didn\u2019t eat legumes, regardless of whether the diets were geared to weight loss. Lead author Dr. Russell de Souza told Reuters Health that legumes \u2013 or pulses, as they are known in many parts of the world \u2013 are an important sustainable protein source, plus they\u2019re high in fiber. \u201cLegumes also have a low \u2018glycemic index,\u2019 which means the carbohydrates in them do not raise blood sugars as rapidly as things like white bread or white flour,\u201d said de Souza, a researcher with the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael\u2019s Hospital in Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers examined data from nearly two dozen trials and found that participants who ate about three quarters of a cup of legumes every day lost about three quarters of a pound more than those who didn\u2019t eat legumes, regardless of whether the diets were geared to weight loss. Lead author Dr. Russell de Souza told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-7051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}