The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Where do legumes belong in the primal eating plan?

I never cared much for legumes growing up.

Beans were the magical or musical fruit that made you toot.

They existed in a quantum state.

Beans were your ally in schoolyard rear-facing attacks

and your downfall during encounters with that pretty girl from history class.

But the issues I had were mostly superficial.

I've never come out strongly against legumes.

My focus has always been on grain avoidance.

Way back, I placed beans and lentils and other legumes in the OK category.

If you wanted to eat them and you had carb calories to spare, they were a decent choice.

Flatchelins aside, they are relatively nutritious and come with a big dose of prebiotic fiber

for your gut flora, hence the gas. Now you might be having one of two reactions.

One, Sisson says legumes are back on the menu, boys. Let's go grab some Taco Bell

Bean burritos. Two, Sisson just put legumes at the bottom of the Peebee Food Pyramid.

He's sold out to Big Bean. Get him. Before you either tar and feather me or subject

your office mates to chemical warfare, allow me to explain. Stefan over at Whole Health Source wrote an interesting article a few years back, alleging

that Paleolithic, and some extent, hunter-gatherers did and do, utilize wild legumes.

Stefan cites several examples.

The Kung Sen from South Africa, who in amenable regions eat large amounts of wild

sin beans. Sin beans are about 33, 33, 33, fat protein carb, kind of a cross between a peanut and a

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