/oss/taxonomy/term/1717/all en /oss/article/critical-thinking-health-and-nutrition/sea-moss-chili-peppers-and-broccoli-soup <p>Some of the nutritional advice that flashes across my computer screen every day is outright nonsense, much of it is speckled with smidgens of science that have no practical relevance, and in a few rare instances, there may be some points of interest that merit a further look. Let me illustrate with a few examples that cropped up on a single morning.</p> Wed, 24 Jul 2024 18:19:35 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 10007 at /oss /oss/article/uncategorized/yummy-broccoli <p>Say broccoli to kids and they say "yuck." Say broccoli to researchers at Johns Hopkins University and they say "yumm!" Maybe not for the taste, but for the vegetable's biological effects. Thanks mainly to the pioneering work of Professor Paul Talalay at Johns Hopkins, we know that broccoli, along with other "cruciferous" vegetables like cauliflower and Brussels sprouts contains glucoraphanin, a chemical that upon chewing is converted to sulphoraphane which in turn induces the formation of enzymes that ferry foreign substances out of the body.</p> Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:30:42 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 2159 at /oss