There's a reason Mom always told you to eat your broccoli: Those green mini-shrubs are filled with nutrition (think fiber, vitamin C, and beta-carotene). And now a new study has discovered the secret ...

Broccoli is one of those foods we’re told to eat as youngsters because it’s good for us. Unfortunately, researchers at the University of Illinois (U of I) found some of that goodness, namely the ...

For the first time, a research group has provided an explanation of how eating broccoli might reduce cancer risk based upon studies in men, as opposed to trying to extrapolate from animal models.

PHILADELPHIA – Three-day-old broccoli sprouts, a widely available human food, suppressed Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infections, according to a report in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of ...

Men who eat broccoli just a few times a week may have a lower prostate cancer risk than men who don't, new research suggests. Animal studies have long suggested that broccoli and other cruciferous ...

A new University of Illinois study shows that tomatoes and broccoli--two vegetables known for their cancer-fighting qualities--are better at shrinking prostate tumors when both are part of the daily ...

A concentrated extract of freeze dried broccoli sprouts cut development of bladder tumors in an animal model by more than half, according to a new report. There is strong evidence that the protective ...

Cruciferous vegetables contain compounds that preferentially destroy ineffective mutant p53 tumor suppressor proteins, but leave the good ones alone. Steve Mirsky reports Generations of American ...

Consumption of broccoli has increased in the United States over the last few decades as scientists have reported that eating the vegetable three to five times per week can lower the risk of many types ...

Compounds in broccoli have previously been linked to the prevention of cancer. Now, a study conducted by researchers at Hunan Agricultural University in China, has found that those compounds can be ...

URBANA – Microwaving your broccoli might be the most convenient way to cook it, but to get benefit of this cruciferous veggie's cancer-fighting properties, steaming it lightly is the better way to go, ...

This release is available in Spanish. ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A compound derived from broccoli could help prevent or treat breast cancer by targeting cancer stem cells -- the small number of cells that ...