The environment in Syracuse has been becoming increasingly polluted with heightening concerns about being exposed to toxic chemicals which can undermine your health.This combined with unhealthy lifestyles and diets is creating a great deal of sickness and premature deaths in the community. One answer to help improve your health is to add kale as one of the cruciferous vegetables you eat on a regular basis. The George Mateljan Foundation has reported "What's New and Beneficial About Kale."
Kale can offer you some special cholesterol-lowering benefits if you cook it by steaming. When they've been steamed the fiber-related components in kale do a better job of binding together with bile acids in your digestive tract. It's easier for bile acids to be excreted when this binding process occurs which results in a lowering of your cholesterol levels. And isothiocyanates (ITCs) made from glucosinolates in kale have been associated with kale's risk-lowering benefits for several types of cancer, including cancer of the bladder, breast, colon, ovary, and prostate..
Kale is now also recognized as providing wide support for the body's detoxification system. Research has shown that the ITCs made from kale's glucosinolates can help to regulate detox at a genetic level. Furthermore, researchers can now identify over 45 different flavonoids in kale. The flavonoids in kale combine both antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits in manners which give kale a leading dietary role with respect to avoidance of chronic inflammation and oxidative stress. Kale therefore is clearly a health promoting cruciferous vegetable which is well worth considering in your diet.
Photographer: Kittikun Atsawintarangkul
