The Longevity Food Most of Us Barely Eat

Long-term studies suggest the biggest health benefit may come not from simply eating more, but from what you replace

Beans are almost universally considered healthy. They feature in every reputable healthy-eating pattern: Mediterranean, DASH, AHEI. And yet they occupy a strangely marginal place in most Western diets.

If your main experience of “eating more beans” involves tipping a tin of something grey and slightly slimy into a saucepan, warming it through and wonderi…