What Are the Health Benefits of Lima Beans?

What Are the Health Benefits of Lima Beans? (0:22)

The lowly lima bean can have a power impact on cancer. To learn more about this health benefit of lima beans, watch this video featuring diet and disease prevention specialist Dr. William Li.

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Lima Beans are one food that can actually help reduce the risk of breast cancer, and this is because Lima Beans contain a metro cancer fiber called genostine, that modernly tests the bad supply of cancer cells, but it causes breast cancer cells to die and so studies have actually shown that if you eat lima beans, you can actually reduce the risk of breast cancer by more than 20%.

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About William Li, MD

William Li, MD, is President, Medical Director, and Co-founder of the Angiogenesis Foundation. He has been actively involved in angiogenesis research and development for 22 years. Li trained with Judah Folkman, a pioneer of the field.

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What Are the Health Benefits of Lima Beans?