{"id":329,"date":"2018-01-27T14:18:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T19:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2018-01-27T14:18:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T19:18:33","slug":"who-is-saying-to-eat-pulses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"WHO is saying to eat pulses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m so sorry. I will try to avoid that in the future. But yes, the WHO, the US and Canada are all pushing to eat more pulses. The UN actually made 2016 the \u2018Year of the Pulse\u2019 to try and get more people to eat them.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, another post about how important it is to get more pulses into your diet. Because it simply can\u2019t be emphasized enough that pulses are cheap, so affordable to everyone around the world, not just to trim a food budget; highly nutritious, so they can reduce malnutrition in poverty stricken countries, and add nutrition to the food rich but nutrition poor diets of many western countries; healthy, for digestive systems, hearts, blood sugar levels, cholesterol levels, and many other lifestyle issues; good for the environment, because pulses add to the biodiversity of the soil they are grown in, contributing to healthier soil a healthier environment, and reducing the need for fertilizer; and good for the environment because they mitigate climate change and put less waste into our environment.<\/p>\n<p>There are simply no reasons to not add pulses to your diet, or replace some proteins in your diet with them and many many reasons to do it. Of course, this is assuming you do not have one of the rare problems where you simply cannot digest pulses.<\/p>\n<p>So you are sold, and you want to add more pulses to your diet? You are in luck, because one thing I have is a wide range of pulse meals to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m so sorry. I will try to avoid that in the future. But yes, the WHO, the US and Canada are all pushing to eat more pulses. The UN actually made 2016 the \u2018Year of the Pulse\u2019 to try and get more people to eat them. Yes, another post about how important it is to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?p=329\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHO is saying to eat pulses?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"1","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"2","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"2","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"2","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,45,54],"tags":[58,42,57,55],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health","category-pulses","tag-bean","tag-beans","tag-pulse","tag-pulses"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HEA6-5j","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":324,"url":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?p=324","url_meta":{"origin":329,"position":0},"title":"Why do I love Pulses?","author":"Gina Kleinmartin","date":"January 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"It\u2019s obvious that I do from my first post on the subject. But why do I love them? Because they are healthy, cheap, taste good and quite often easy. They are cheap. You can still find them in supermarkets for under $1 a pound for dry beans, which can be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Food&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Food","link":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?cat=19"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":321,"url":"https:\/\/homesteadinginthecity.kleinmartin.com\/?p=321","url_meta":{"origin":329,"position":1},"title":"BEANS! (or pulses)","author":"Gina Kleinmartin","date":"January 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I love beans whoo hoo hoo I love beans how \u2018bout you? High in fiber low in fat- Hey I bet you didn\u2019t know that! https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7ZWQMvHNOnI And Brax sums up how I feel about beans. 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