Super Veges, to the rescue!
Your mom said it. My mom said it. Every mom in the history of the world probably said it. Every night, at the dinner table. No, not “stop hitting your brother/sister” - but “Eat your vegetables, or no desert!” It had many variations, but the message was always the same - eat your vegetables. They’re good for you.
Which of course meant they tasted like crap. Except for you weirdos out there that LIKE your food all healthy and stuff instead of drenched in butter, dipped in chocolate and wrapped in bacon. (BACON!) We know you eat your vegetables. It’s ok. We promise only to make faces at you behind your back while we’re drumming up the courage to attack our own pile of steamed veges as they grow in size before our very eyes, threatening to eat US before we eat them….
…what, that’s just me? Alrighty then, moving on. I have a point, I swear.
BBC reported recently that a team of researchers at the University of Warwick has discovered that eating broccoli can help reverse some of the damage done due to diabetes due to the compound called sulforaphane. (…which sounds like something that also gives you smelly gas, but maybe that’s just me too!)
Anyway, this compound encourages production of enzymes that protect the blood vessels, and a reduction in high levels of molecules that cause cell damage. This adds to the other benefits of the jolly green vegetable as it has also been linked to a lower risk of heart attacks and strokes. Since people with diabetes are up to 5 times more likely to develop cardiovascular diseases, it seems a no-brainer to me - eat more broccoli.
Even if it’s green.
And a vegetable.
And tastes like a green vegetable.
And not like Bacon.
Sigh. This eating stuff that’s good for you is HARD. Any die hard broccoli fans out there with recipes to die for?! Cough em up in the comments, ya’ll!
August 19th, 2008 at 12:03 am
This is from memorie and it might not be perfect… I will look for the recepie latter… But here we go
3 heads of broccoli choped into perfect floweretts
1/2 onion diced
mix these in a large bowl
DRESSING
4TBS yogard. I use Dannon lite and fit strawberrie but you pick the flavor you like best.
1 TBS EVOO
3 TBS Lemon juice
mix these in a small mason/canning jar and shake it up realy well. pour it over the brocoli mix and stir well…
SERVE
Oh it is so YUMMY!!!!!
September 7th, 2008 at 11:48 am
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