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 carcinogens, Zhang says.

Just one more reason to incorporate more broccoli sprouts in your diet. For more on nutritional benefits, and where you can get them or how you can grow them yourself, check out the reading materials at Broccosprouts.

This study has been presented during the American Association for Cancer Research’s Sixth Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention.

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“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 seen annually.

Talalay is focusing on the potential use of sulforaphane, a compound found in high amounts in broccoli sporuts, as a topical protective against skin cancer. Read the full article from the Washington Post.

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Broccoli Sprout Extract Against Skin Cancer

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) inhibitors are being looked at as potentially preventing cancer. She said their research shows that these same effects of inhibiting HDAC might be obtained by consumption of cruciferous vegetables.

And you don’t have eat tons of them either.

In human subjects, just eating some broccoli sprouts on top of a bagel with cream cheese resulted in HDAC inhibition.

How about sprouting some yourself? Remember to harvest on the third day!

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