Fight Cancer With Broccoli Sprouts
Fight Cancer With Broccoli Sprouts
By Jeannie Crabtree
Mom was right to insist on us eating our vegetables. She knew they built health and gave us the minerals we need.
Take Broccoli sprouts. Broccoli sprouts are rich in a compound that provides significant protection against breast cancer and colon cancer. The compound is called sulforaphane glucosinalate.
Sprouts grown from certain types of broccoli seeds contain up to 50 times more of this compound than mature broccoli.
I have read that a brand of sprouts developed at John Hopkins University is guaranteed to have 20 more times the SGS compound than the mature broccoli. This one is called BroccoSprouts.
You can purchase broccoli sprouts at your local health food store or grocery store.
It is possible that Broccoli sprouts could carry the
bacteria that make you sick - salmonella and e.coli, so you may want to take them out of the container when you get them home and soak in a bowl of water with a few drops of grapefruit seed extract for three or four minutes.
Don't put the sprouts back in the same container unless you soak that as well. After draining them for a few minutes store them in the refrigerator.
With Breast cancer and Colon cancer so common these days, be sure to add in this protective food, assisting your body to fight off illness and cancer.
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Gardening for Fun and Profit
Cheverly, Maryland (ContentDesk) January 23, 2006 -- Today, GardenHere dot com launched a new garden auction area for its members. Members can place up to 14 free listings right away.
In addition, members earn a $20 credit when someone they refer our auction area signs up. Paid listings are only 0.35 cents and members pay zero commissions --even when they sell plants, seeds, flowers, equipment or other related items at a profit.
GardenHere, known as the friendliest home gardening community on the Internet, has dedicated the new auction area to its members as a way to turn home gardening into profit.Website founder and owner, Al Stubblefield, explained, During the last couple of years there has been many times when I wanted to help members who were going through some very tough times.
One member called to say she could no longer afford an Internet hookup. ...
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I PLANT A GARDEN EVERY YEAR
I PLANT A GARDEN EVERY YEARI always plant a large garden every yearOnce my watermelons were ate by a deerA bountiful garden comes once in a whileGives food on the table and makes me smileI plant watermelons, corn, squash, and peasThe sunflowers I plant are food for the beesI once grew cantaloupes as sweet as honeyOnce my squash was zucchini, it was funnyMany times my gardens have survived droughtA few times it drowned, O how I did poutDespite the weather, the insects and the weedsI'll plant my garden with a variety of seedsThose tiny seeds will spring from the groundO my I spy another fire ant moundIt's a battle to have a bountiful harvestBut each year I plant and pray for the bestI know gardens are a gift from aboveI plant mine with care and tend it with loveThe garden of Eden was planted by GodI wonder how he felt as he worked the sodThis year I ate some silver queen cornI picked it from my garden one Friday mornStraight from the stalk to the pot it wentThat sweet corn was worth the...
I PLANT A GARDEN EVERY YEAR
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So, Where is the Greener Grass?
Twenty years ago when I left the Ireland, known as the Emerald Isle, I was looking for the place where the grass is greener. We all know that faraway hills are green, and back then I was searching for my greener pastures so I looked faraway.
With a few detours, I arrived in Australia; the Sunburnt country, dry, arid and drought ridden, looking for prosperity. I was looking for the good life of opportunity, beaches, yachts and barbeques.
When I had left Ireland, in the days before Viagra and computer chips were the national exports. Before the Celtic Tiger and double digit economic growth, Ireland's significant exports were its most highly educated and talented doctors scientists, engineers, artists and writers.
There weren't many greener pastures in Ireland back in the early 80's, before the Northern Irish Peace initiative and its attendant changes when Guinness was still marketed as the drink of choice of old men in the darkest corners of dark pubs....
So, Where is the Greener Grass?
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Songs That Will Never Win A Grammy
(ContentDesk) July 6, 2005 -- The very unknown, very unpopular and very uncommercial RockPopJazzClassical group "the primeTime sublime Community Orchestra" (pTsCO) wants to be famous. They've tried everything: dressed up in weird costumes, smashed their violins on stage, dated famous actresses and even appeared in a sex video.
After 2 minor selling albums and performances in empty concert halls around the world, the pTsCO have released their 3rd CD "Songs That Will Never Win A Grammy". The album is sure to be ignored by The New York Times and all the other major publications, radio and media outlets.Utilizing the latest voice synthesis technology developed by AT&T and the Yamaha Corporation, all of the songs on the new CD are sung by a computer. "Songs That Will Never Win A Grammy" is an eclectic mix of pop songs and soundbites with contributions by Richard Nixon, Hillary Clinton, both George Bushes, and other celebrities.
From the majestic opening of "Curb Your God"...
Songs That Will Never Win A Grammy
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Don?t Pull Up The Seeds When You?ve Just Sown Them
Why is it that 95% of people who set themselves goals fail to reach them? In one word: impatience.
The most important and difficult stage of goal-building is the immediate stage after you set your goals. In the first stage, there's a brief blip of euphoria. But this soon passes and then you hit the arid plateau of learning. It's in this phase that most people lose their way and give up.
But this is the phase when you have to hang in there despite appearances. Otherwise, it's like digging up the seeds a week after sowing them.
So, here, for those who need a roadmap through the arid plains of goal-building, is a 6-step guide to managing your impatience and keeping your plans on track.
1. Have Plenty of Motivation Reminders. One of the cruel tricks that life plays on us is to make goal-setting easy and goal-building hard. This is no more true than in the opening phases of working towards a new goal. When we choose a new goal that...
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Herb Marketing Directory Lists Buyers of Floral and Herbal Botanicals for 2006
Maryville, MO (ContentDesk) April 6, 2006 -- The 2006 Directory of Flower and Herb Buyers lists 35 companies seeking more than 300 species of floral and herbal botanicals including roots, leaves, nuts, seeds, fruit, barks, and more. These companies want to buy directly from growers and wildcrafters across North America in large and small amounts. The botanicals index shows what is in demand this year. Measured by the number of requesting companies, Goldenseal is the most sought after species this year, followed by Black Cohosh root, Ginseng, Catnip, Dandelion, Lobelia inflata, and Burdock. The Directory connects buyers and sellers of ornamental, medicinal, culinary, and other botanicals grown or wildcrafted in North America.
Listings are updated for each annual edition. The directory lists what botanicals are in demand, what form is needed, and how to contact the companies.
To get your copy of the Directory of Flower and Herb Buyers, Send $15.95, postpaid to: Prairie...
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