n the December issue of the Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, Alizadeh et al1 have demonstrated that consumption of a legumes-rich hypocaloric diet for 6 weeks reduced some anthropometric measures such as waist, hip, triceps, biceps, subscapular and suprailiac skin fold thicknesses among healthy premenopausal women with central obesity. Beneficiary effects of legumes consumption like red...

the winter, chemically terminated in the spring, and then corn is planted into the surface residue. Corn is typically The benefits of winter legumes as cover crops for corn (Zea mays planted early in the growing season, which forces an L.) are diminished by the earliness of corn planting in relation to early termination date. A termination date at least 14 d biomass and N production by the legu...

Legume consumption appears to lower serum chtr lesterol and to increase cholesterol saturation of bile, but the mechanisms of these effects have not been established. We studied nine human subjects on a metabolic ward during two randomly ordered 6-7 week periods: one during consump tion of a control diet and the other during consumption of' the same diet with 120 gm mixed legumes substituted fo...