YOU certainly have heard a million benefit from a variety of colorful vegetables and good vegetable greens. Baby broccoli, for example, has been shown to protect the body from free radical attack. If you love vegetables, you’ve done the right thing, if not the invention of this Japanese researchers can be your motivation to consume vegetables, especially baby broccoli.
A study in Japan found that consuming 70 grams of baby broccoli every day for 2 months could protect the body against various stomach ailments commonly experienced, such as gastritis, stomach ulcers and even gastric cancer.
Baby broccoli shoots, bright researchers, is rich in sulforaphane, a natural chemical plant that serves trigger production of enzymes in the gut. These enzymes function against free radicals, the chemicals damage DNA and prevent inflammation.
In a study published in the journal Cancer Prevention Researchini, researchers found that consuming 70 grams of baby broccoli each day can help fight off some serious stomach problems.
“We found one food, which if consumed regularly, the potential for addressing the causes of the problem of gastric inflammation and can even help prevent stomach cancer,” says Jed Fahey, a nutritional biochemist from Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Cancer Center at the Chemoprotection
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Sulforaphane, he explained, has long been known as an effective antibiotic against Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that causes gastritis, peptic ulcer and gastric cancer. However, this is the first experiment that shows the benefits of this substance in humans.
“Tunas broccoli contains sulforaphane levels much higher than mature broccoli,” said Fahey was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.
In his study, the researchers involved 50 patients who infected Helicobacter pylori. The patients were divided into 2 groups. 25 patients were asked to consume as much as 70 grams of baby broccoli daily for 2 months.
While the other 25 patients were asked to consume alfalfa sprouts that do not contain sulforaphane.
“We know that 2 ounces pork broccoli a day is enough to raise levels of protective enzymes, explained he. In fact, continued Fahey, baby broccoli can reduce the rate of inflammation and peptic ulcer and
cancer.
World Health Organization (WHO) explained her, classified as a carcinogen Helicobacter pylori. Helicobacter this can damage the stomach lining.
“Helicobacter pylori can infect billions of people or say half
world population. This species has long been linked denagn stomach ulcers, which often can be cured with antibiotics, “he said.
