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news.Research has already suggested that a link exists between eating certain foods and a lowered risk of cancer, but recent findings have emerged explaining exactly how eating these foods can have such a preventative effect.
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Recent UK press reports explain how a team of researchers at the University of Georgetown discovered that a natural chemical found in foods such as broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and soy beans, boost the body’s ability to repair damaged DNA. Damaged DNA in cells can cause them to become cancerous so facilitating their repair effectively lowers the risk of developing cancer.
The technical names for the naturally occurring compounds are indole-3-carbinol or I3C, which is found in vegetables including broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage, and genistein which was found to be present in soy beans.