EATING broccoli three or four times a week can protect against cancer because of health-boosting compounds in the vegetable Researchers from the University of Illinois have identified that broccoli includes phenolic compounds, which are associated with a lower risk of coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes and asthma.
But the experts from the US said eating broccoli or other types of Brassica vegetable every three or four days can lower the risk of cancer and other degenerative diseases.
Jack Juvik, University of Illinois geneticist, said: "Phenolic compounds have good antioxidant activity, and there is increasing evidence that this antioxidant activity affects biochemical pathways affiliated with inflammation in mammals.
“We need inflammation because it's a response to disease or damage, but it's also associated with initiation of a number of degenerative diseases.
Our results point in the direction of important semen alterations: Semen of smokers presents an inflammatory nature, associated with decreased capacity of sperm to achieve fertilisation and generate a healthy pregnancy," Pimenta Bertolla noted.