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Leftovers and beans on toast: The cheap foods that can help you lose weight

By Hattie Garlick
Daily Telegraph UK·
9 mins to read

Championing potatoes, leftover pasta and beans on toast, is the ‘resistance starch’ diet too good to be true? Hattie Garlick looks at the evidence.

I am about to embark on a radical new weight-loss diet. Want to hear the rules? Beans on toast, leftover pasta and potatoes, and reheated rice. I sense you raising an eyebrow, but let me assure you. The regime is backed by science. Or so reports on new research would have us believe.

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