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Eat Broccoli for a healthy heart

Posted on October 12, 2008

Broccoli is heart healthy. Well yeah that makes me happy considering my kids love those green tree tops (I make them eat the stems as well, I am such a mean mommy).University of Connecticut researchers have associated broccoli with producing helpful proteins that aid damaged cardiac cells and tissue. The broccoli diet appears to persuade the body to produce a protein called thioredoxin, which protects against cell damage in the heart. Broccoli contains sulforaphane, which is seen as particularly effective in triggering this process.Don t overcook or boil your beautiful green veggie though...

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