Broccoli is good for the heart

Wishing your heart healthy on Valentine's Day February 14 or throughout 2008? Give a gift bag full of broccoli with a box of heart-shaped chocolate. Researchers in Connecticut have published an impressive new illustration of eating broccoli that can prevent heart disease.

Dipak K. Das and colleagues note how the researcher has discovered that broccoli is a rich source of antioxidants, vitamins, and fiber, and these substances can prevent cancer. letter. Other studies also confirm that broccoli benefits the heart, although scientists do not understand how to treat this vegetable.

Currently, Das and colleagues present evidence of this topic from animal studies. They fed the lab rat with broccoli within a month and measured its effectiveness in the heart muscle of the mouse. Compared to a group of rats eating daily foods, animals eating broccoli improved heart function and suffered less damage to the heart muscle when hypoxia was present. Researchers note that broccoli's health effects are due to the high depletion of substances that can increase the amount of a heart-healthy protein called thioredoxin.

Article ' Broccoli: a special vegetable that protects the heart in mammals through the thioredoxin oxidation cycle ' is published in the American Chemical Society.

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