Please be careful as to what you eat in high quantities; such
consumption may have negative effects.
From http://employees.csbsju.edu/SSAUPE/biol106/lectures/legumes.htm:
Toxins - Many legumes have toxic chemicals in
them. For example, lima beans, especially wild types, have lots of
cyanogenic glycosides in them. Other legumes have trypsin inhibitors
(block our protein digesting enzymes) and toxic amino acids.
Lathyrism is an irreversible paralysis caused by eating a vetch and
favism is a hemolytic anemia from eating Broad beans. This latter
condition results in genetically susceptible individuals who lack the
ability to make a critical enzyme. Pythagoras may have been a victim.
On May 22, 2005, at 5:42 PM, Amanda Phillips wrote:
Hi.
Excuse me re-opening an old subject - I spoke to a Professor Jenner
of Kings
College,London. He's on Parkinsons Disease research.
He confirms the usefullness of broad beans as a natural source of
dopamine.
I've bean :) eating as many as I can.....
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