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Broccoli May Lower Lung Cancer Risk In Smokers
Health & Wellness  (tags: broccoli, healthcare, protection, prevention, Lung cancer, interesting )

Ingrid
- 228 days ago - sciencedaily.com
The cancer preventive properties of broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables appear to work specifically in smokers.
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Janet Solomon (207)
Wednesday November 19, 2008, 5:53 pm
as does cabbage. there's an ingredient in these vegetables that makes the initial 'cancer irritant'[I'm using technical language, here lol] unable to adhere to the mucous lining of the lungs.
 

Janet Solomon (207)
Wednesday November 19, 2008, 5:55 pm
and maybe that's why those chain-smoking Russian mountain people lived to be some of the oldest people in the world ever hehe
 

Kathy W. (292)
Thursday November 20, 2008, 9:40 am
I love broccoli.
 
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