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Four Reasons to Love It

Broccoli is delicious. Ever notice you never have guilt over eating broccoli?
Our body’s intricate defence’s see broccoli coming and wave it on through sending a message to our brain that it is an approved substance.
Actually the whole visual of food going into our mouths and than into our stomachs should really be food>mouth>stomach>brain.

We are a complete unit.
What you do to one part effects the others.

Even something like cutting your hair.
If you love it, it improves your mood.
If you hate it the chances of a feel good food (read junk) finding it’s way into your day is a real possibility and that effects everything else.

It’s a consistent loop but for some reason we think its just food in and food out.

Lot more going on than that.

1. broccoli is a member of the Clean 15

The Clean 15 is a yearly list put out by the Environmental Working Group.
It lists the 15 produce items with the least amount of pesticides present at the check out.

These guys have our back!
They bring to light all the things we SHOULD know but for some reason we aren’t informed by mainstream media.

They do some really positive research on behalf of humankind so go check out the site.

And if you really want to get freaky, go see the Dirty Dozen list they’ve got and just dive head first into our food reality.

2. broccoli is a natural immune booster

Naturally loaded with Vitamin C, broccoli has more in 1/2 cup than 1/2 an orange does.

Vitamin C is of the water soluble family of vitamins which means the body does not store it, it takes what it needs and flushes out the rest.
So?

This is important: There is no Bank of Vitamin C
If you mega dose cause you’re trying to kill that cold it’s not going to work.

What you can do instead, is spread out the supplements throughout the course of the day (like the directions on the bottle) and keep that Vitamin C wall of immunity from toppling over and flushing away.
FAR more effective than banging back 4 vitamin C’s and going back to bed.

Mega dosing over a long period of time is hard on your digestive system and your colon.
So don’t do it.

Another way to get vitamin C that you might not find as disruptive as supplements is food.

Seek out the foods high in Vitamin C and just automatically add them to your meals, you don’t have to look hard:
broccoli, green and red peppers brussel sprouts, tomatoes and oranges to name a few.

3. broccoli = gut health

Gut health, gut health you always hear about it.
Well broccoli, broccoli eat more of it.

There’s so many things our guts (non medical term) do for us and never complain but they too have limits.
With all the crap (also non medical term) we put in our face like fried foods, sugar, processed meat, junk food and refined oils, sometimes they need some TLC.

Good news!
Studies have found broccoli to reduce inflammation in the colon and it’s good for your gut!

4. broccoli is brain food

If you’ve read all the way through this post than I’m sure we now have a mutual understanding of just how GREAT broccoli is.

But there’s just 1 more thing I want to mention.
Broccoli supports brain health. In which case I think we all know some people who should be eating this by the wheel barrow (jokes!) but seriously.
There have been studies done that show it to help repair and protect the brain.

It’s settled, we should just get a superfood cape for broccoli and call it a day cause I could go on about the benefits but I feel like we should get to the good part – the eating!

Try to make a concentrated effort to just eat more broccoli, if the opportunity arises to add to a meal (except dessert) just go for it.

Let the eating of broccoli commence!
Best Broccoli Salad EVER

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