The ability of black beans and chickpeas to mitigate the high GI of rice is consistent with many, but not all, studies that have explored the impact of whole dry beans on postprandial glucose and insulin when consumed with a high GI food among healthy subjects and individuals with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes [4,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40]. The gene discussed is INS; the disease is type 2 diabetes mellitus.