FINDINGS COULD PAVE WAY FOR INEXPENSIVE FOOD-BASED
PREVENTIVE STRATEGIES
A clinical trial involving nearly 300 Chinese men and women
residing in one of China’s most polluted regions found that daily consumption
of a half cup of broccoli sprout beverage produced rapid, significant and
sustained higher levels of excretion of benzene, a known human carcinogen, and
acrolein, a lung irritant. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
of Public Health, working with colleagues at several U.S. and Chinese
institutions, used the broccoli sprout beverage to provide sulforaphane, a
plant compound already demonstrated to have cancer preventive properties in
animal studies. The study was published in the June 9 online edition of the
journal Cancer Prevention Research.