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Spoon up baked beans
Or enjoy three-bean salad. Eating 1⁄2 cup of legumes like kidney beans or navy beans daily slashes your odds of kidney slowdowns by 50%. So say researchers reporting in the British Journal of Nutrition, who found that the soluble fiber in legumes protects against bloodsugar spikes that can damage kidneys over time. Other foods that deliver a kidney- friendly fiber boost: chickpeas, green peas and lentils.
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