He suspects Asian women have less breast cancer partly because they eat many cruciferous vegetables, including bok choy. When mice were fed vegetable indoles, their rates of breast cancer sank dramatically, says Dr. Michnovicz. Researchers at Eppley Cancer Institute at the University of Nebraska also found that feeding animals cruciferous vegetables, particularly cabbage and collard greens, curtailed both the occurrence and the spread or metastasis of breast cancers. Anticancer indoles are also concentrated in the other cruciferous vegetables, including cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kale, mustard greens and turnips. To get the greatest effect, eat the crucifers raw or lightly cooked, Dr. Michnovicz advises.
Heavy cooking tends to destroy indoles, curtailing their antiestrogen and anticancer effect.
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