{"id":19164,"date":"2016-03-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/how-eating-broccoli-could-save-your-life\/"},"modified":"2016-03-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T00:00:00","slug":"how-eating-broccoli-could-save-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/how-eating-broccoli-could-save-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"How eating broccoli could save your life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A doctor in the UK has lavished praised on the nutritional value of broccoli, saying it can protect us against cancer and even treat autism.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-3468692\/Forget-wonder-drugs-need-broccoli-spinach-protect-against-deadly-diseases.html?ito=social-facebook\" target=\"_blank\">Writing in the Daily Mail<\/a>, Dr Michael Greger didn\u2019t hold back in his admiration for broccoli.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBroccoli is incredible,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt can prevent DNA damage and metastatic cancer spread; activate defences against pathogens and pollutants; help to prevent lymphoma; boost the enzymes that detox your liver; target breast cancer stem cells; and reduce the risk of prostate cancer progression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the amazing properties of broccoli were all thanks to sulforaphane, which is found in cruciferous vegetables \u2013 these include rocket, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, spring greens, horseradish, kale, mustard greens, radishes, turnip tops and watercress.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"How eating broccoli could save your life | FIVEAA\" title=\"How eating broccoli could save your life | FIVEAA\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/broccoli.jpg\" width=\"670\" height=\"445\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr Greger said sulforaphane may also help protect your brain and eyesight, reduce nasal allergy inflammation and manage type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>He also said it has been found to help treat autism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised trial of boys with autism found that two to three servings of cruciferous vegetables a day improves social interaction, abnormal behaviour and verbal communication \u2014 within a matter of weeks,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s an important catch.<\/p>\n<p>To get the full benefit of sulforaphane, you need to eat your cruciferous vegetables raw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s because there\u2019s an enzyme that doesn\u2019t activate the sulforaphane until raw broccoli, say, is chopped or chewed. And that enzyme is destroyed by cooking,\u201d said Dr Greger.<\/p>\n<p>The other option is to chop the vegetable, then wait 40 minutes \u2013 at that point you can cook it and retain the benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Greger also warned that the veggie\u2019s benefits were lost in frozen broccoli.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSadly, commercially produced frozen broccoli lacks the ability to form sulforaphane because the vegetables are flash-cooked before they are frozen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr Greger\u2019s article was adapted from an upcoming book he\u2019s co-written called How Not To Die: Discover The Foods Scientifically Proven To Prevent And Reverse Disease by Dr Michael Greger and Gene Stone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/five-reasons-why-you-should-sleep-naked-tonight\">THIS IS WHY YOU NEED TO SLEEP NAKED TONIGHT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/chance-an-asteroid-that-will-miss-earth-this-year-could-hit-in-2017-says-nasa\">THE ASTEROID THAT COULD HIT EARTH IN 2017, ACCORDING TO NASA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor in the UK has lavished praised on the nutritional value of broccoli, saying it can protect us against cancer and even treat autism. Writing in the Daily Mail, Dr Michael Greger didn\u2019t hold back in his admiration for broccoli. \u201cBroccoli is incredible,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt can prevent DNA damage and metastatic cancer spread; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-19164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How eating broccoli could save your life - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/how-eating-broccoli-could-save-your-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How eating broccoli could save your life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A doctor in the UK has lavished praised on the nutritional value of broccoli, saying it can protect us against cancer and even treat autism. 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