Could you live on beans and coffee only??

@NeoComp (1316)
United States
March 10, 2008 6:47pm CST
This is something very interesting. A friend of mine went to visit a remote area in Mexico. He said while he was there all they had to eat was beans and Coffee. The people in that village only ate that.. everyday. Could you survive on this food? Also would you get bored of it?
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@miryam (6505)
• Italy
17 Mar 08
no i think that are a few iu'm not a doctor but i not think.............but i'm sorry eheheh..... myryam
@dbhattji (2506)
• India
11 Mar 08
I don't think it would provide all the nutrition, you need a balanced diet to remain healthy and vitamins that you get from green vegetables and fruits. It is worth checking the health of these people.
@magilives (261)
• Australia
10 Mar 08
I live on coffee now, so beans would be an added bonus lol. I don't think I would get bored with the coffee but only eating beans everyday would be very boring. I would need to add some chocolate to my diet as well then it would be ok.
@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
11 Mar 08
I like beans, all kinds & I love coffee. Beans are very nutritious. Howevrr, I doubt whether beans contain all the vitamins we need daily. I am quite sure coffee does not contain sufficient daily vitamins. So, I suspect these people suffer from various vitamin deficiencies. So, if I was to go on a beans & coffee diet, I would go crazy from lack of certain vitamins.
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
11 Mar 08
I would not prefer it but if I had to live on it, I think I could do it just to survive. It would be better than nothing at all. We have to eat something to live and coffee would be ok to drink too.
@trickiwoo (2702)
• United States
11 Mar 08
I have severe food allergies, so if I eat too much of one kind of food, I'll develop an allergy to it. So I'm absolutely certain if I ate only beans and coffee every day, it wouldn't take long before I'd develop a bad allergy. I'm sure I'd get bored of it real quick too, but I'd be so hungry that I wouldn't care. My main concern would be my food allergies though.
• United States
10 Mar 08
No I would not live on beans and coffee alone. It is not healthy. I am sure those villagers could grow other vegetables too for a verity.
@dtroas (479)
• United States
10 Mar 08
Beans I love them and we do eat them alot in our home. But is it something that I could eat all the time NO.