Parents often say that eating veggies are for the health and we must admit that they are right. In recent studies, vegetable particularly broccoli help cells fend off damage from harmful ultraviolet radiation.
U.S researchers said that the extract derived from the newly sprouted broccoli seeds can reduced skin redness and further damage by more than one-third compared with untreated skin. Broccoli extract help damage skin cells fight ultraviolet radiation.
The extract is different from a sunscreen; it helped to fortify skin cells to fight the effects of ultraviolet radiation. It helped to boost the production of enzymes that depend against UV radiation. When in sunscreen, it only provide physical barrier against UV rays by blocking or scattering the light.
Sulforaphane, a compound found in broccoli extract has already been tested on animals to prevent the development of tumor.
The broccoli extract is still requires further studies to improve its effectivity and see the end result of this extract on prolong use. There are still some flaws on this extract but hopefully scientists and researchers could work on that. Thousands of people died every year because of skin cancer. If this broccoli extract work it would be a huge leap in the field of medicine and a big helped for the people to fight skin cancer.
