Tip of the day: Eat more raw veggies[SIZE=-1]Cooking broccoli depletes it of sulforaphane, a compound found in the vegetable that appears to protect against cancer and stomach ulcers, according to a recent study. Dutch researchers gave volunteers about 2 cups of cooked or raw broccoli on different days and then measured the amount of sulforaphane in their blood and urine. Levels of the disease-fighting compound were nearly 11 times higher after eating raw broccoli than cooked. But other research has linked even cooked broccoli with lower rates of cancer and other diseases.
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