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Broccoli -- an elixir for many ailments

Published On: August 31, 2009, 1:02 am
By Dharmendra

Broccoli is a vegetable consisting of many nutrients. It not only satisfies the everyday needs of vegetables but also works as a fruit for the family. Broccoli is capable of satisfying your need for Vitamin C to help integration of iron in the body and put a stop to the growth of cataract. It also makes you highly immune to colds and other infections.

 
Besides, its high content of folic acid helps women maintain their tissue development. It is also very helpful during pregnancy and while consuming birth control pills.
 
While Broccoli’s high calcium content is beneficial to women at the time of pregnancy and after childbirth, it is also extremely helpful to fight oesteoporosis, a common complaint among women after menopause. 
 
Broccoli’s high fiber content proves very helpful for lowering blood cholesterol levels and aids in detoxification of the body and eliminating a lot of infections and diseases produced by water, food and environment pollution. Broccoli’s potassium brings down blood pressure.
 
The vegetable also comes with the Indole-3-carbinol, which helps impede hormone-based cancers such as prostrate cancer, breast cancer, cancer of the uterus and cervical cancer.
 
Plus, sulforaphane in the vegetable (Broccoli) can help boost enzymes to block cancers, whereas the beta-carotene changes the Vitamin A and aids to obtain the health benefits of antioxidant.
 
Last but not the least, Broccoli has the capacity to control and prevent Alzheimer’s disease, calcium deficiencies, diabetes, colon and stomach cancer, malignant tumors, heart disease, lung cancer, arthritis, and even the problems, which are related to your age.
 
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