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many other vegetables, broccoli provides fantastic nutrition both in its raw form and when it ' s properly cooked. Cooking reduces some of broccoli ' s anticancer components, but lightly steaming it will preserve most of the nutrients. Broccoli is available fresh year-round in most areas, but if you can ' t find it where you live, frozen broccoli is a good substitute.
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Steaming or cooking broccoli lightly releases the maximum amount of the antioxidant sulforaphane.
Why Kale Is a Super- Healing Food
Kale is highly nutritious, has powerful antioxidant properties, and is antiinflammatory. One cup of cooked kale contains an astounding 1,328 percent of the RDA for vitamin K, 192 percent of the RDA for vitamin A, and 89 percent of the RDA for vitamin C. It ' s also a good source of calcium and iron.
Kale is in the same plant family as broccoli and cabbage, and, like its cruciferous cousins, it contains high levels of the cancer-fighting compound sulforaphane, which guards against prostate, gastric, skin, and breast cancers by boosting the body ' s detoxification enzymes and fighting free radicals in the body. The indoles in kale have been