Bean paste curbs obesity, study finds

On 23 Mar 2005 14:36:58 GMT, Ignoramus25277
wrote:

|On 23 Mar 2005 06:31:12 -0800, Sweet Zombie Jesus! wrote:
| Bean paste curbs obesity, study finds
|
|
| Want to stay healthy? Then stick to a traditional Korean diet with
| plenty of "doenjang," fermented soy bean paste.
| That's what a study by professor Park Gyun-young of Busan University
| found. He has scientific evidence to back the time-old belief that
| Korean traditional bean paste prevents obesity, and discovered that the
| soy bean paste has much stronger antiobesity properties than
| "gochujang," red pepper paste.
|
| The researchers put two groups of mice on a high-fat diet for a month,
| feeding one group of mice with an additional 10 percent of bean paste.
| Mice fed bean paste put on an average 246.6 grams while the others
| recorded a 287.4-gram weight increase.
|
|I never heard of a mouse that weighs more than 246 grams.

Mighty Mouse??


Cheers Alan, T2, Australia.
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On 23 Mar 2005 14:36:58 GMT, Ignoramus25277
wrote:

|On 23 Mar 2005 06:31:12 -0800, Sweet Zombie Jesus!
wrote:
| Bean paste curbs obesity, study finds
|
|
| Want to stay healthy? Then stick to a traditional Korean diet with
| plenty of "doenjang," fermented soy bean paste.
| That's what a study by professor Park Gyun-young of Busan University
| found. He has scientific evidence to back the time-old belief that
| Korean traditional bean paste prevents obesity, and discovered that the
| soy bean paste has much stronger antiobesity properties than
| "gochujang," red pepper paste.
|
| The researchers put two groups of mice on a high-fat diet for a month,
| feeding one group of mice with an additional 10 percent of bean paste.
| Mice fed bean paste put on an average 246.6 grams while the others
| recorded a 287.4-gram weight increase.
|
|I never heard of a mouse that weighs more than 246 grams.

Mighty Mouse??


Cheers Alan, T2, Australia.


Naahhh, Mighty Mouse was normal sized, just super strong. He was my hero as
a kid, him and Cecil the seasick sea serpent ;-) Dayum, that takes me back.
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