Brocolli, could be the future Cancer Medicine!

[nickcole]

Every single part of broccoli, including the leaves, can be consumed with the knowledge that you are eating a huge helping of healthful nutrients. Although this late growing season vegetable loses some of its health benefits when cooked, others are enhanced and released by cooking.

Steamed broccoli has higher amounts of compounds, like glucosinolates, that battle cancer, so this is the preferred method of preparation. Yet, a nation raised on fried foods would even fry this healthful vegetable, unaware that such cooking techniques lower the amounts of these nutrients. Steaming broccoli in a colander placed above a pot of slightly boiling water not only is good for you but also the broccoli will turn a bright, appetizing green color and be less likely to turn soggy like it would if boiled directly in the water.

Consumers typically think of bone-building calcium when they think of broccoli. One study shows it actually takes two and a half cups of broccoli to equal the calcium content in an eight-ounce glass of milk.
Calcium is just the tip of the iceberg. A forty-four calorie cup of cooked broccoli contains: five grams of fiber, four grams of protein, fifty percent of the daily requirement for Vitamin A, one hundred seventy percent of the daily requirement for Vitamin C, twenty-three percent of the daily requirement for folate (a B Vitamin that occurs naturally in some plants), and 505 milligrams of potassium. That single cup also provides riboflavin, Vitamin B6, iron and lutein (which helps to combat macular degeneration).
Raw broccoli, on the other hand, has been shown to be valuable in the prevention of breast, prostrate, bladder and uterine cancers.


According to a Roswell Park Cancer Institute study, eating broccoli at least three times a month reduces the risk of bladder cancer by thirty-seven percent. Yet, cooking broccoli will destroy anticarcinogens. (Good Housekeeping, July 2008)
A Harvard University research study reflected findings that five daily servings of fruits or vegetables can lower the risk of stroke by thirty-one percent. Among the vegetables listed was one-half cup of cooked broccoli which by itself would require two-and-one-half cups to meet the daily requirement. Rather than consuming this much broccoli daily, it is best used as one of several fruits and vegetables

Source: Fun.chanun.com

[jirri]

Broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables are good for detoxifying too because of its phytonutrient content.

[sindrella1]

Curcumin 95 - (herbs4usa.com/curcumin-95-1668.html) is known for its antitumor, antioxidant, antiarthritic, anti-amyloid and anti-inflammatory properties. Curcumin has the potential for treatment of five top cancers: colon, breast, prostate, lung and skin.

[Burnz]

yeah, i read some articles regarding that. here's another article for more information.
articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/07/22/how-broccoli-fights-cancer.aspx

[nickcole]

Originally Posted by sindrella1

Curcumin 95 - (herbs4usa.com/curcumin-95-1668.html) is known for its antitumor, antioxidant, antiarthritic, anti-amyloid and anti-inflammatory properties. Curcumin has the potential for treatment of five top cancers: colon, breast, prostate, lung and skin.

Indeed, I read this one too!