Scientists have discovered that an extract of broccoli sprouts protects
the skin against the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays This is not a sunscreen, because it does not absorb the ultraviolet
rays of the sun," explained Dr. Paul Talalay, a professor of pharmacology
and molecular sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in
Baltimore. "We don't want people covering their bodies with broccoli and
going to the beach. They will have no protection whatsoever." Exposure to ultraviolet or UV rays is the primary cause of most skin
cancers. The incidence of skin cancer in the United States is on the rise
as men and women who had too many sunburns earlier in life get older and
develop the diseas
"Cells contain an elaborate network of protective genes that code for
proteins that protect against four principal injurious processes to which
all of our cells are exposed and which are the causes of cancer,
degenerative disease and aging," he explained.
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