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Eat your broccoli (and brussels sprouts)

Masses of circumstantial data link diet and disease, including a new report about a chemical in broccoli that detoxifies carcinogens in vitro, but it remains the case that very little is really known about food as medicine

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Culliton, B. Eat your broccoli (and brussels sprouts). Nature 356, 377 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/356377a0

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