Green Beans and Sleep?
As of the last 2 weeks or so (since my camping trip), I have been sleeping absolutely fantastic. Not only do I fall asleep easily and sleep well, but I am not waking up in the middle of the night for this or that like I often have done in the past. Also, in the last 2-3 weeks, I have been eating at least a cup of fresh green beans daily, along with another cup of cooked beans daily. We are growing a lot of green beans this year so we can freeze enough for the whole year. And as the kids and I pick the beans, I will eat a good cup or more fresh off the vine.
So what is in these beans? According to whfoods.com, green beans have 
Vitamin K, Vitamin C, Manganese, and Vitamin A in fairly large quantities, as well as a whole host of other nutrients. Furthermore, whfoods.com states that these vitamins are at optimum levels in beans that are uncooked.
Vitamin K, at least at this source, may possibly be linked to sleeping better. At any rate, fresh green beans provide an ample supply of a good variety of natural vitamins while resulting in very few calories added to your diet.
So grow some beans in your back yard or patio! Pole beans can be grown in a very small area with several hills providing enough fresh beans for all your needs. All you need to do is get a bag or two of compost from your home store that you mix into the ground or very large planters, sow about 6-12 pole bean seeds in each hill, water, and provide climbing poles or a trellis as the beans get larger.
