by Paul Fassa
(Health Secrets) In a heavy meat and potato eating society with a reliance on fast foods, there is a tendency to ignore veggies and even malign them as a distraction from what you really want to eat. Yet, vegetables need to be a large part of our diets if we wish to avoid chronic diseases, pharmaceutical dependency and hospitalization. One family of vegetables in particular stands out as best to keep cancer away.
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Recent studies have confirmed what foodies and holistic health practitioners have preached for some time about the cancer protective effects of cruciferous vegetables.
Cruciferous vegetables include broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, bok choy, kale, radishes, and turnips. These are vegetables that are often ignored. But at least some of them should part of your daily diet if you care about your health.
Clinically Proven Health Benefits of Cruciferous Vegetables
A review of many studies by the Journal of the American Dietetic Association found strong evidence for cruciferous vegetables’ cancer inhibiting capabilities in over 70 percent of them.
The American Institute for Cancer Research acknowledges that various elements of cruciferous vegetables stop cancer cell growth in breast tumors, uterine lining, lung, colon, liver, and cervix. Epidemiological studies (long term large scale statistical surveys) have shown that men who included high amounts of cruciferous vegetables in their diet had lower rates of prostate cancer than those who mostly ignored those vegetables.
Lab studies conducted by Mathew Wallig, PhD at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign isolated the cancer fighting cruciferous compounds and observed the mechanics of how they keep cancer away.
Sulforaphane, one of the cruciferous phytochemicals, stimulates enzymes in the body that detoxify carcinogens before they damage cells. Dr. Wallig also found that the synergistic combination of two other cruciferous compounds, indole 3-carbinol and crambene seem to vigorously activate detoxification enzymes to keep cancer away.