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- Boost broccoli's cancer fighting power with broccoli sprouts - 6.8
- Broccoli sprouts prevent stomach cancer - 6.4
- Eating broccoli may help fight heart disease - 6.2
- Broccoli rich diet prevents prostate cancer - 5.5
- Sulforaphane in broccoli may limit breast cancer cells - 5.1
- Broccoli may ward off bladder cancer - 4
- Broccoli may help heart in diabetes patients - 3.6
- Sulforaphane in broccoli could treat genetic skin disorder - 2.9
- Banana plantain and broccoli fibers could treat Crohn's disease - 2.6
- Kraft Foods recalls 3 varieties of Velveeta Shells & Cheese, US - 2.1

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Boost broccoli's cancer fighting power with broccoli sprouts
By overcooking their broccoli, many people destroy myrosinase – a beneficial enzyme in broccoli. Broccoli sprouts contain myrosinase in abundance. To increase the vegetable's benefits, you must sprinkle broccoli sprouts on your broccoli or make a mustard sauce to serve with broccoli.

Banana plantain and broccoli fibers could treat Crohn's disease
Crohn's is a condition that affects one in 800 people in the UK and causes chronic intestinal inflammation, leading to pain, bleeding and diarrhoea. Researchers are working with biotechnology company, Provexis, to test a new plantain based food product that could treat patients with the disease.

Sulforaphane in broccoli may limit breast cancer cells
A compound derived from broccoli could help prevent or treat breast cancer by targeting cancer stem cells -- the small number of cells that fuel a tumor's growth -- according to a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Broccoli sprouts prevent stomach cancer
Three-day-old broccoli sprouts, a widely available human food, suppressed Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infections, according to a report in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Broccoli may help heart in diabetes patients
Researchers claim that a compound found in brassica vegetables such as broccoli could undo the damage caused by diabetes to heart blood vessels.

Vitamin C injections slow tumor growth
High-dose injections of vitamin C, also known as ascorbate or ascorbic acid, reduced tumor weight and growth rate by about 50 percent in mouse models of brain, ovarian, and pancreatic cancers, researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) report in the August 5, 2008, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Broccoli rich diet prevents prostate cancer
For the first time, a UK research group at the Institute of Food Research led by Professor Richard Mithen has provided an explanation of how eating broccoli might reduce cancer risk based upon studies in men, as opposed to trying to extrapolate from animal models.

Broccoli may ward off bladder cancer
An international team of researchers led by AgResearch senior scientist Dr Rex Munday has discovered that an extract of broccoli sprouts can decrease the incidence of bladder cancer in an animal model by more than 50 per cent.

Red meat consumption linked to colorectal cancer
For most Americans, meals tend to center around meat. To significantly decrease a person's risks of developing colorectal cancer, experts at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center suggest a new approach to meal planning that focuses more on fruit and vegetable dishes.

Eating broccoli may help fight heart disease
Wishing your Valentine good heart health on February 14 - and throughout 2008" Then consider the food some people love to hate, and hand over a gift bag of broccoli along with that heart-shaped box of chocolates. Researchers in Connecticut are reporting impressive new evidence that eating broccoli may protect against heart disease.

Sulforaphane in broccoli could treat genetic skin disorder
The compound sulforaphane whose natural precursors are found at high levels in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables has been hailed for its chemopreventive powers against cancer. Now sulforaphane has demonstrated new skills in treating a genetic skin blistering disorder called epidermolysis bullosa simplex (EBS), Pierre Coulombe and colleagues at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore report at the American Society for Cell Biology 47th Annual Meeting.

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