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Article: High-selenium broccoli stymies some cancers.(Brief Article)
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- Agricultural Research
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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Broccoli stores selenium in an especially useful form (called SeMSC) that is easily converted into an active anticancer agent. Now scientists have succeeded in greatly boosting the selenium in specially grown broccoli.
Earlier studies showed that laboratory rats fed experimental high-selenium broccoli and broccoli sprouts developed fewer precancerous lesions when exposed to known carcinogens than did rats given selenium salts--either selenate or selenite. The rats were fed the rough equivalent of a 200-microgram human dose of selenium daily.
The new tests ...
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