By 1980, it had already been shown that beans cause an “exceptionally” low blood sugar response, half that of other common foods.765 But two years later, an extraordinary discovery was published: Legumes can benefit your metabolism hours after consumption766 or even the following day. If you eat lentils for dinner, your body reacts differently to breakfast eleven hours later.767 Even if you drink straight sugar water the next morning, your body is better able to handle it if you had lentils the night before. Researchers initially dubbed it the “lentil effect,” but when subsequent studies found
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