BROCCOLI FACTS(Keywords: broccoli facts, broccoli nutrition facts, bernard preston, how to steam broccoli, how to cook broccoli, cooking broccoli, broccoli soup recipes )New … hot off the press STOP PRESS: Stones in my Clog by Bernard Preston, my third book has just become available for the first time as an ebook for just $2.99. Our STORE … It’s very easy to download this Microsoft Word file, no special Kindles etc are necessary. Just click View when you open the file, then Full screen for reading… Briefly, a few ordinary facts, since I expect you already know many things about broccoli. It belongs to the cabbage family, and is called a "Brassica". The cauliflower is a first cousin, but because broccoli is rich in dark cancer-preventing pigments, and in my opinion tastes better, it's my first choice from this family. It's other major virtue is that it can be grown in cold and moderate climates, and it continues to bear for months and months. Having reaped the main head, don't pull the plant - it will continue to produce florets that can be plucked for months. Reap them before they flower. Just two or three plants will keep the average family in broccoli soup for months. Notice the florets still being produced on this plant... the young leaves are delicious too.
ANTI CANCER Broccoli FactsGlucoraphaninI really don't know why we humans blithely assume that cancer is a disease that only other people get. Cancer is common, and the end is usually miserable. It behooves each and every one of us to take whatever steps we can to avoid it - or suffer.Broccoli is the richest known source of a compound called Glucoraphanin that is converted in the body into a powerful anti-cancer compound called Sulforaphane. PROSTATE CANCER and Broccoli FactsIn the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (2007, volume 99) researchers evaluated 1338 men with prostate cancer, and found a strong inverse correlation between the aggressive prostate cancers and the cabbage family foods, particularly broccoli. More Brassicas, less cancer.Other research states that men low in Selenium (a powerful antioxidant) are 5x more likely to get prostate cancer. It comes as no surprise that broccoli is particularly rich in Selenium (1.6mg /100g).
SKIN CANCER and Broccoli FactsNew research confirms that white mice exposed to UV-light, a known skin carcinogen, were 25% less likely to get skin cancer if they were fed a broccoli extract.
STOMACH CANCER and Broccoli FactsA bug found in the stomach, Helicobacter pylori, has been shown to dramatically increase the risk of stomach cancer.Research done at Johns Hopkins University found that Glucophanin had a potent double action in preventing stomach cancer. The drug industry is of course busily making extracts that they can sell to you at great profit. Perhaps eat more delicious broccoli...??? Cheaper, nicer, and almost certainly more beneficial. It's not unreasonable, though it remains unproven, that the anti-carcinogenic properties shown above apply to all cancers, by stopping the unbridled proliferation of cells that characterises malignant tumours.
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| 100g raw BROCCOLI | |
| Kcal | 34 |
| Protein | 2.8 |
| Carbohydrate | 6,4 |
| Fibre | 2,6 |
| Calcium | 47 |
| Magnesium | 21 |
| Potassium | 316 |
| Zinc | 0,41 |
| Selenium | 2.5 |
| Vit C | 89 |
| Folate | 63 |
| Vit B6 | 0,1 |
| Vit B12 | 0 |
| Vitamin A | 623 IU |
| Vit E | 0,78 |
| Niacin | 0,6 |
| Vit K | 102 |
| MUFAs | insignif |
| PUFAs | insignif |
Conclusions
This may be well just be a boring, insignificant list of numbers to you, but what is interesting from these broccoli facts is that raw broccoli isWin-win
We meat lovers often have too much of an amino acid called Homocycteine in the blood, and vegetarians often have too little of another amino acid called Methionine.The significance? Homocysteine has been strongly linked to heart disease and stroke. A Methionine deficiency is very serious because it's an "essential" amino acid. You can't build a healthy body without it. The disease is called Kwashiorkor.
"Plasma homocysteine levels are strongly influenced by diet, as well as by genetic factors. The dietary components with the greatest effects are folic acid and vitamins B6 and B12. Folic acid and other B vitamins help break down homocysteine in the body. Several studies have found that higher blood levels of B vitamins are related, at least partly, to lower concentrations of the toxic amino acid homocysteine. Other recent evidence shows that low blood levels of folic acid are linked with a higher risk of fatal coronary heart disease and stroke."
The American Heart Association.
Conversion of HOMOCYSTEINE to METHIONINE, GLUTATHIONE AND SAMe.
Win-win? The B vitamins Folate, B6 and B12 are vital for conversion of Homocysteine to Methionine in the body. Eat more rabbit food! You can read all about it at The H factor.
Glutathione is the body's best anti-aging and anti-oxidant chemical. SAMe is one of the main anti-inflammatory and anti-depressant chemicals in the body.
So, even if you eat too much meat, and we probably all do, provided you also eat plenty of broccoli, the nasty homocysteine will be converted to anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-aging and anti-depressent substances in your body. In effect, you can have your cake, and eat it!
HOW TO STEAM BROCCOLI
Nothing could be easier than how to steam broccoli. Even a hacker like me can do it! There are only three significant facts.
BROCCOLI SOUP RECIPES
Ingredients: How to cook broccoli. A piece of cake!
- 1 broccoli head, including the stalk. Or 3-4 cups of florets.
- 1 onion.
- 2-3 potatoes. Perhaps a carrot.
- 3-5 cloves of garlic.
- A few slithers of hot chili, some like it hot!
- Chicken bones stock.
CHICKEN BONES bouillon, easy to make at home.
PREPARATION of Broccoli Soup Recipes
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- Start about an hour ahead of time with your chicken bones bouillon.
- In a separate pot, lightly saute the chopped onion in a TBSP of butter.
- Meanwhile, thinly slice the broccoli stalk, and add to the onion.
- Peel, crudely dice (since you are going to liquidise it) and add to the onion and broccoli-stalk mix that is sauteing.
- Add any other veg that you choose, and the slithers of chilli, salt and pepper to taste.
- Strain the chicken bones bouillon directly into your pot of onion, broccoli stalks and potatoes.
- Boil for about 15 mins.
- When the potatoes are nearly done, added the chopped broccoli, and bring rapidly to the boil for NO MORE THAN TEN MINUTES.
- Liquidise.
NOTES from broccoli facts on Cooking Broccoli
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Broccoli has a neglible amount of fat, and salmon of course (along with the olive and the avocado) has the very healthy essential fatty acids that healthy nerves demand. So together they make a great dish. We had it last night! So easy to make, so delic... WAYS TO COOK SALMON ... Broccoli and Salmon soup recipe.WHY BROCCOLI FACTS @ BERNARD-PRESTON.COM?
Having two patients right now who are ailing seriously, one with double breast cancer (why, oh why did her doctor prescribe hormones in menopause when the risks are so high...?) and another with prostate cancer helps focus the mind that adjusting spines is not the only important part of a chiropractor's life.Tomatoes and Omega-3 are also potent prostate cancer preventers by the way. And research in Holland, which has the highest breast cancer in the world, one in eight women, suggests that a high animal protein diet is the cause... eat more Tofu nutrition and Hummus, more fish and less read meat.
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Chiropractor Bernard Preston (actually Barrie Lewis' alter ego!) has gone into semi-retirement to the Midlands of South Africa where he was born. However, his retirement sentiments are not to sit on his thumb! STONES IN MY CLOG, his third book has just been released as an ebook for only $2.99 and it's proving a roaring success. A FAMILY AFFAIR, his fourth is awaiting completion. And then there's his garden which returned to jungle status whilst he was in the Netherlands. It must be recued for growing chickpeas and of course and growing broccoli is very high on the agenda! CHIROPRACTOR PIETERMARITZBURG ...RETIREMENT SENTIMENTS ...
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Ebooks are taking the world by storm. Amazon is selling more ebooks now than paper books. Save our forests, go digital! Plus they're much cheaper. My paper books cost about $15 but you can download my first ebook, Stones in my Clog for only $2.99. A Chiropractor in Holland.Ebooks come in different forms. For some you need an Ereader like a Kindle but mine you can read on your computer if you have Microsoft Word. Soon they'll be in pdf, then anyone can read them.
- A woman in acute pain who arrives on the arm of a man I presume is her husband but, no, Jan Two is her parish priest. And lover...
- Dick is one of the world's best gliding instructors. He's been Dutch champion many times, flown at least ten times at the World Gliding championship... could a pupil fly so badly to make him airsick? You bet!
- How Bernie got fired "op staande voet". Instant dismal. "Now... GO!"
HOW TO GROW BROCCOLI
Broccoli is an easy-to-grow vegetable. In particularly it keeps bearing for months, the florets are perfect for making broccoli soups. Plant out the seedlings, water and weed and eat your broccoli in about 6-8 weeks, and for the next two months. HOW TO GROW BROCCOLI
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