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Green, relatively hard beans before they are cooked, Mung Beans are known by many as green grams or golden grams. Furthermore, they have been known to be some of the healthiest things you can eat around the world for centuries. They can be found naturally around the world, from Europe to Asia to North America. And they are most commonly found in Indian cuisine. Below are ten of the most notable health benefits of the popular mung bean though there are many more beyond this list.

Anti-Aging Benefits

The Mung Bean is actually one of the more notable foods that can reduce aging. This is because it has a significant amount of copper in it. This mineral is known to reduce wrinkles, age lines and age spots from the skin. A decade can be removed from your overall look with regular exposure to the copper in mung beans and also help your hair and nails with their own unique vitality.

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Gives Overall Radiance

This is not just a term that is overused in makeup commercials -- radiance is an actual thing that is the sign of ideal health in an individual. Regular ingestion of mung beans will usually create this radiance and shine to the human skin. An even better way to use the copper in mung beans to have this effect on your overall look is to make a mung bean face pack, creating a paste out of a fine powder mung beans have been ground into. Many different age-defying products have already done this as well which are available for purchase.

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Adds Shine to Hair

As is the case with radiance and the high amount of copper content in mung beans, the hair may reveal the benefits of this bean the most. It's because copper helps the scalp maintain optimal health, ensuring the proper utilization of iron, magnesium, and calcium into the human body. This, in turn, leads to long and strong hair that can often grow very thick.

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Helps Regulate Metabolism

Mung beans have also been found to be a great regulator of the human metabolism. Those with poor metabolisms often suffer from indigestion and too much acidity in their guts, but with regular ingestion of mung beans, the digestive rate of the human body increases. This is due to the large amount of fiber in these legumes, which also helps ease the whole digestive process, from start to finish.

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Helps Control Cholesterol

High cholesterol is very dangerous, as it can lead to heart disease. One way to reduce this is to eat mung beans on a regular basis. With the raised metabolic rate and improved digestion that mung beans facilitate, cholesterol doesn't absorb into the arterial and capillary walls as easily, keeping to from forming and blocking these important circulatory passageways.

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Easy to Eat

For people with stomach problems, there is a constant search for something they can eat, which can be prepared in a way that tastes good and is also healthy. Mung beans manage to check all of those boxes, as it can be digested very easily, is loaded with nutrients and with a proper recipe, is truly delicious yet light, not weighing you down for the rest of the day.

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Helps You Lose Weight

Mung beans increase your metabolism so much and are also so low in caloric content that they are one of the best things to eat if you are trying to lose weight. 100 grams of mung beans is a mere 330 calories. And yet they will give you plenty of energy throughout the day while also keeping you from getting real hunger pangs.

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Healthy Gums

Beyond flossing, eating mung beans actually make your gums healthy. This is because this little magic bean is also rich in sodium, as well as many other vitamins and minerals. If gums are red, irritated, smell bad or are constantly causing you pain, start eating mung beans.  Or  try to eat some other sodium-rich organic food and these problems should begin to improve.

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Regulates Blood Pressure

Mung beans contain a very high amount of magnesium. Magnesium to lower or help maintain low blood pressure when added to the body on a regular basis. This is because it causes the blood vessels to relax and it lowers overall hypertension. This keeps the blood pressure low and the body under control. It also helps reduce stress and prevent a heart attack.

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Removes Toxins from Body

Mung Beans can help purify and remove toxins from the body when eaten on a regular basis, which helps prevent a whole host of different health problems. These health problems include ulcers and even cancer. With regular ingestion of mung beans, these toxins will be excised from your systems, making everything run a lot better.

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