Veggie Moment

Yes, your mother was right! Eat your veggies. And you probably have been tellling your kids the same thing.

Here is your anti-cancer grocery shopping list. Broccoli sprouts because they offer a rich source of sulforaphane which research is showing may be useful against gastric cancer, even better than alfalfa sprouts. And a researcher at Johns Hopkins found that rubbing an extract of broccoli sprouts on the skin of mice was helpful against skin cancer.

Cabbage is next on the list. Eat it raw or short cooked for the best result. A study done on Polish women who came to America found that in Poland the women ate about 30 pounds of gabbage a year and when they came here the amount was reduced to about 10 pounds and they started getting more breast cancers. For the greatest benefit start eating it as a teenager says the researcher from U of Mexico.

Next is garlic. Florida A&M University study researchers found that diallyl sulfide or DAS gives garlic its flavor but also counteracts cancer-causing actions of PhIP which is a chemical created from grilling or frying meats at high temperatures.

This info is from WebMD Medical News at http:/www.webmd.com