Cancer depends on the food you eat, exercise, your mental health and luck. Cancer is such a disease everyone is scared of and it can sap your life off. But there are many vegetables which healthy and can prevent cancer. Such vegetables are known as cruciferous vegetables which can reduce the risk of cancer. Here is a list of few cruciferous vegetable which you’d like to add to your diet.
Cruciferous Vegetable:
These eight vegetables are quite known o prevent cancer and available very easily in India.
1. Cauliflower
2. Broccoli
3. Cabbage
4. Turnip roots and leaves
5. Watercress
6. Radish
7. Mustard seeds
8. Bok Choy
How do these vegetables prevent cancer?
There is a chemical called glucosinolates that can fight biological compounds and contain cancer fighting properties. This chemical is usually found in Cruciferous vegetables.
While preparation of these food or while cooking, chewing and during digestion, this chemical gets broken down forming biologically active compounds such as nitriles, indoles, thiocyanates and isothiocyanates etc. Indole-3-carbinol is an indole while sulforaphane is an isothiocyanate. These two have proved their effectiveness in anti-cancer protection.
These cruciferous vegetables are very much essential to reduce the risk of colon cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, and prostate cancer.