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It’s a Hill of Beans! Wheat not part of agricultural revolution 10,000 years ago?

24 November 2015 (03:39 UTC-07 Tango 01)/03 Azar 1394/11 Safar 1437/13 Ding-Hai 10th month 4713

For a long time the academically accepted idea that modern civilizations began with the agricultural revolution of wheat and barley domestication.  Now Israeli researchers say beans to that!

Wheat & Barley have often been praised as leading the Neolithic Revolution.

In the area now incorrectly called the Middle East (aka Levant, Fertile Crescent) an archaeological find reveals that the primary crop grown 10-thousand years ago (when the agricultural Neolithic Revolution involving wheat and barley is claimed to have started) were Legumes like fava beans, lentils, peas and chickpeas.

Weizmann Institute of Science spent several years investigating Neolithic sites in the Galilee region.  The Israel Antiquities Authority say the fava beans are the oldest ever found, possibly 10-thousand 2-hundred years old!

2015: WARREN BUFFETT TO KILL OFF $1-BILLION WORTH OF Heinz-Kraft food JOBS, BECAUSE HE “LIKES THEM”! 

2014:  The Journal of Interdisciplinary Toxicology says Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide is the cause of growing gluten allergies around the globe!

2013:  Corn syrup+GMO+pesticides=Colony Collapse, “This is the biggest general threat to our food supply!”-Kevin Hackett, USDA

Outlawed GMO wheat shows up on Oregon farm!

Fukushima update; Japan says being picky about what you eat can reduce radiation contamination?

What economic recovery?;  Cooking oil is the New Gold, even Warren Buffet wants it!  

HEINZ OPERATION IN IDAHO CUTTING 80 JOBS! PAR FOR THE COURSE FOR THE CITY OF POCATELLO! T.G.I. FRIDAYS GOING DOWN?

2012: Global economic war; GROCERY STORE CHAIN REFUSES TO BUY ISRAELI PRODUCTS

2011: Beans beat Diabetes? 

International, U.S.

Prevent Diabetes: Eat Beans?

1,900 Costa Ricans were studied, those who ate a lot of white rice, and those who preferred beans to rice.

In Costa Rica there’s been a trend of increased white rice consumption, instead of beans, and there’s been an increase in diabetes.  Researchers wanted to know if there is a connection between white rice and diabetes.

In the study, reported by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, some of the people were asked to eat beans instead of white rice.  People who ate beans instead of rice had a 35% reduction in metabolic syndrome.

“[White] Rice is very easily converted into sugar by the body. It’s very highly processed, it’s pure starch and starch is a long chain of glucose. Beans compared with rice contain much more fiber, certainly more protein and they typically have a lower glycemic index, meaning they induce much lower insulin responses.”-Frank Hu,  Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, in a Reuters interview

The researchers are concerned with the diets of people in the United States, because the amount of white rice consumption is going up, and that could explain why rates of diabetes keep going up.