Beans, beans are good for your heart, the more you eat, the more you fart.
When I was very young, that was a little rhyme we used to say over and over again. Beans are a great source of fibre, and as such they really will help you pass wind. Help you even if you don't really want to be helped.
A recent article on Ananova claims a man lost 6 stone by eating beans. It's one of those things - if you eat just one type of anything, you're likely to lose weight. Its very hard to gorge yourself on just one food type.
Now I just wonder how much weight he would have lost if he had his baked beans with good old Burgen bread?