Monday 13 October 2014

Substance in broccoli improves autism symptoms: study

Some of more than 8,000lbs of locally grown broccoli from a partnership between Farm to School and Healthy School Meals is process to be served to students at Marston Middle School in San Diego By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A dose of a chemical found in broccoli and other vegetables may improve the behavioral and social symptoms of autism in young men, according to a new small study. But people would have to eat a possibly unrealistic amount of broccoli and other vegetables to reach the dose of the molecule - known as sulphoraphane - used in the new study, the lead researcher told Reuters Health. “Our extract product we used is not on the market,” Dr. Andrew W. Zimmerman said by phone. “There are other things like it but in different forms. ...




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