Broccoli YUK!!!

[chaggle]

I hate it.

Could someone please shoot down this scandalous piece of non-research so that my wife will stop saying "See - told you. Eat your broccoli"

The chemical called sulforaphane seems to counteract a fault with the gene called PTEN which is involved in prostate cancer.
The gene normally stops cancer from developing but in certain cells it is missing and this is when the disease can begin. However sulforaphane seems to dampen the effect of these cells that are missing PTEN and prevent them from triggering cancer growth.

[smudge]

I hate it.

Could someone please shoot down this scandalous piece of non-research so that my wife will stop saying "See - told you. Eat your broccoli"

Sorry, I can't help. But I LOVE broccoli so am happy to eat your share! If it makes me healthy too, thats great!

[brianp]

Sorry, I can't help. But I LOVE broccoli so am happy to eat your share! If it makes me healthy too, thats great!

I agree - lovely stuff.

[DrS]

I'm afraid I'm joining the chorus. I love it!

[Matt]

Can't stand the stuff but it seems they have a documented link between the food and the proposed effect and have now added a plausible mechanism.

Only thing I can offer is that the proposed active ingredient is found in other, cruciferous vegetables. Not a great consolation if, like me, you can't stand any of that family.

[farmersboy]

Broccoli - almost up there with cauliflower cheese...

[chaggle]

Broccoli - almost up there with cauliflower cheese...

Now then... anything is improved with cheese sauce. Perhaps if she completely covers it it might be bearable.

[smudge]

Broccoli - almost up there with cauliflower cheese...

YUM! Now you are talking! Cauliflower WITH BROCCOLI cheese!

[Mr.Smoketoomuch]

I hated broccoli when I was a kid, but then I hated cabbage and sprouts and cauliflower and lots of other things.
About 20 years ago I started growing it in my garden and now I love the stuff, especially the purple-sprouting variety.

I read somewhere that even though broccoli and carrots are individually good for you, some study had established that the goodness is enhanced when they are eaten together.
(No references, I probably read it on the back of a box of Englands Glory).

Still feel like throwing out at the thought of cauliflower though.
And I mean throwing out, not up, such is the loathing. I can't even bear to look at a cauliflower.

[chaggle]

YUM! Now you are talking! Cauliflower WITH BROCCOLI cheese!

Plus a leek or two maybe?

[Drop Bear]

I dislike broccoli, but hate its cousin cauliflower.(the cooking smell!Yuck!) I avoid vegetables I need to smother with a sauce to make palatable.


I will eat broccoli,in season when it's cheap,at around $2 a kg (about 40p a pound.) Cut into very small rosettes and steamed. Also makes me feel virtuous.You know,like reycling household waste,even though I suspect,deep down, it's mostly bullshit.

Tangent : On a recent tabloid TV programme it was claimed that contary to common belief, carrots are NOT good for our eyes,and may in fact contribute to macular degneration.

Tonight our country's leading experts on the cutting edge treatment reversing blindness and the foods you should eat to keep your sight...Professor Paul Beaumont, "Everyone I've told not to eat too many carrots has been amazed many of them were having a glass of carrot juice a day thinking they were slowing down their macular degeneration and they're horrified to learn that the studies suggest that probably not so" says Professor Beaumont.

Fascinating if true, but considerng the source,I'm not entirely convinced.

http://www.7perth.com.au/view/today-...-degeneration/

[Tony Williams]

I have become increasingly skeptical about claims for foods (good and bad) since these are rebutted by subsequent research as often as they are made. The conclusion I have come to is that as long as we eat a sensible variety of food, with nothing to excess, our bodies will mostly cope fairly well.

While certain foods might reduce the probability of certain types of illness by a small percentage (overall, that is: even a 50% improvement might mean that your chance of suffering the illness might be decreased from 0.04 to 0.02%, to give a hypothetical example), its practical effect on longevity is likely to be minor. The one certainty is that something will get all of us in the end, so eat, drink and be merry!

[jimwalsh]

http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com

as this is backed up by many articles in that bastion of oncological research the daily mail it is bound to be true

Eat your greens to reduce cancer risk
Eating your greens can cut lung cancer risk
Broccoli halves risk 'of deadliest tumours'
Broccoli could keep cancer away
Smoker's friend: How broccoli and cabbages may offer 'special cancer protection' to heavy smokers
How broccoli helps you combat cancer
Broccoli juice helps patient beat bladder cancer
Want to beat cancer? Eat your greens
Broccoli 'could combat prostate cancer'
Super-broccoli to fight cancer
More foods to prevent breast cancer
Cancer: the fruit and vegetables to eat
Make sure these superfoods are on your new year menu
Hate the taste of broccoli? Take a pill

the last article may offer some solace to the less skeptical broccoli-phobes among you...

[DrS]

I have become increasingly skeptical about claims for foods (good and bad) since these are rebutted by subsequent research as often as they are made. The conclusion I have come to is that as long as we eat a sensible variety of food, with nothing to excess, our bodies will mostly cope fairly well.

While certain foods might reduce the probability of certain types of illness by a small percentage (overall, that is: even a 50% improvement might mean that your chance of suffering the illness might be decreased from 0.04 to 0.02%, to give a hypothetical example), its practical effect on longevity is likely to be minor. The one certainty is that something will get all of us in the end, so eat, drink and be merry!

Ditto. My philosophy exactly.

[smudge]

... with nothing to excess,

Are you saying I eat too much broccoli?!
Hmph!
Scare monger.