Aside from its benefits against skin disorders, broccoli sprouts apparently also contain other compounds that play a direct role in preventing bladder cancer.
Using a rat model of bladder cancer, Zhang and his colleagues found that freeze-dried aqueous extract of broccoli sprouts significantly, and dose-dependently, inhibited bladder cancer development. The incidence, multiplicity, size and progression of bladder cancer were all inhibited by the extract, while the extract itself caused no observable changes in the bladder. This protective effect of the extracts was associated with a significant increase in the bladder of several enzymes that are known to protect against oxidants and …read more

A new report indicates that broccoli sprout extract can prevent the damage from ultraviolet light that often leads to skin cancer.
“Ultraviolet radiation is probably the most universal and abundant carcinogen in the world,” said Paul Talalay of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, who led the research, published yesterday in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. And although the new study stops short of proving that broccoli extracts can prevent human skin cancer, he said, it demonstrates “direct protection” against that carcinogen, which contributes to the 1 million U.S. skin cancer cases …read more

Yes, I know I already wrote about the cancer-fighting properties of broccoli. But did you know that broccoli sprouts may even be more potent? They are rich in compounds called sulforaphane, and three-day-old broccoli sprouts consistently contain 20 to 50 times of this compound in comparison to mature broccoli heads. That means, you get just about the same health benefit from eating 1.25 pounds of cooked broccoli or an ounce of broccoli sprouts!
A more recent study by OSU researchers on the dietary prevention of prostate cancer also points to broccoli and broccoli sprouts.
Ho said drugs classified as histone deacetylase (HDAC) …read more