Summer BanksThe Green That KOs Blood Sugar Damage
December 28th 2008 12:12
Like going a couple of rounds with Tyson, high blood sugar can do a number on your vital organs. But eating this may give it a one-two punch right back: broccoli.
The tasty green florets are ripped with sulforaphane, a compound that seems to help keep high blood sugar goons on their best behavior, so they do less damage.
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When your blood sugar is chronically high, it can damage the cells of your heart, eyes, kidneys, and nerves. But in a recent petri-dish study, adding sulforaphane to a mix of blood vessel cells and glucose cut oxidation (read damage) by as much as 73 percent. More research is needed to see if sulforaphane in the diet is as protective.
From: Real Age, available free on the web.
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Try growing some in the back yard although even in the front, midst the flowers will do.
Then watch out for thieves.
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I didn't know you wrote here to katyzzz you sure are busy.
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I think I am too busy for my own good, especially where Blogging is concerned,