How Broccoli Fights Cancer

• Broccoli contains the compound sulforaphane, which helps to prevent cancer. This compound is stronger in broccoli than in other cruciferous vegetables.
  
  

How to Cook Broccoli

• Eat broccoli raw for optimum nutrition. Steaming, microwaving and stir-frying broccoli all are acceptable methods of cooking to retain maximum benefits. As with all vegetables, boiling broccoli reduces its anti-cancer properties.
  
  

Prostate Cancer and Broccoli

• According to Dr. Emily Ho of Linus Pauling Institute, a diet rich in broccoli and other vegetables and fruit can greatly reduce the risk of prostate cancer.
  
  

Daily Consumption

• Dr. Ho recommends consuming broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables twice daily. This is suggested to help prevent several types of cancer.
  
  

Broccoli and Breast Cancer

• University of California Santa Barbara Laboratories conducted research in animals that shows the consumption of broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables inhibits breast tumor growth.