Beef Up Your Diet With Broccoli and Fight Cancer
This just in: there’s yet another reason to beef up your diet with broccoli. A new study shows that eating just a few servings per week of broccoli can significantly reduce a man’s risk for prostate cancer. Tissue samples revealed dramatic changes in key genes that play a role in cancer regulation. It is believed that broccoli, and possibly other similar vegetables like cauliflower and arugula, switch on cancer fighting genes and switch off the genes that help cancer cells proliferate. To gain the benefits broccoli has to offer, men need about four extra servings per week of broccoli.
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broccoli as cancer fighter
Broccoli is a great vegetable! Full of antioxidants and, in addition, rich in indole -3-carbinol (I3C) which helps lower risk of prostate cancer in men as well as breast cancer in women. I3C increases the body's production of the enzyme that metabolizes estrogen in a healthy way-yes, estrogen, it is an important factor in the development of prostate cancer, even more important than testosterone.
Darren Clair, MD
Vibrance Health Services
broccoli is
just all around good for you! The fiber enriched foods are always better for you.
great info !
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