Healing Power of Broccoli
Maybe you’ve heard that broccoli is a healthful food, but do you remember why this is? Here’s a quick review.
A recent CNN article reported:
When it comes to basic nutrients, broccoli is a mother lode. Ounce for ounce, boiled broccoli has more vitamin C than an orange and as much calcium as a glass of milk, according to the USDA’s nutrient database. One medium spear has three times more fiber than a slice of wheat bran bread. Broccoli is also one of the richest sources of vitamin A in the produce section.
But the real surprise is this vegetable’s potent cancer-fighting components.
At the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, food chemist Dr. Paul Talalay…. and his team at the Brassica Chemoprotection Laboratory have discovered that broccoli is rich in substances called isothiocyanates — chemicals shown to stimulate the body’s production of its own cancer-fighting substances, called “phase two enzymes.” According to Talalay,
these enzymes, in turn, neutralize potential cancer-causing substances before they have a chance to damage the DNA of healthy cells.
Broccoli, like other cruciferous vegetables, has the capacity to chemically transform some cancerous substances from fat-soluble to water-soluble, thus allowing them to be expelled through the kidneys.
Broccoli is an important ingredient in our GreenNutrients whole food formula.
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