Broccoli and Vitamin C

I'm reading about vegetables right now, seeing which ones are the best, and which fruits are the best, out of curiosity I guess. Recently I've started eating more broccoli because I just love the taste, steamed more than raw, but raw is good too. So I googled it, and one thing led to another, and now I'm reading about vegetables as a whole.

Broccoli turns out to be one of the best for health. It has a lot of vitamin C, protects against cancer, good source of fiber, good source of protein, and many other benefits. Click here and you'll see the website that I'm currently reading from. The title is "The World's Healthiest Foods." I wish I was a better cook though, so I could try out different recipes with those foods. All I can do with broccoli is steam it.

Oh and by the way, if you boil the broccoli, it loses a lot of those benefits, not all of them, but over half. It's the water that takes away those cancer fighting compounds, I forgot how and how much. Steaming the broccoli takes away 11%, if I remember correctly. But the article I was reading from was actually refuting these facts, saying that depends on how long you steam it and other factors; the writer was actually defending microwaving, because the study said that it would lose a lot of benefits by microwaving, but the writer said that as long as you don't over cook it, and as long as you don't add too much water (he recommended no water at all, since broccoli already has water). From this, one can conclude that the most healthful way to eat broccoli is raw.

So right now, I'm reading about different vegetables. I guess I was distracted to write this post, but it's not bad, since I'm spreading good information (good as in beneficial, unless one is a nihilist and thinks that whatever is beneficial to humanity is bad. ethics *sigh*).

And I woke up with a sore throat yesterday, and today was a little worse, so I think I'm getting sick. All I can do is tough it out I guess. I'd rather let it pass naturally than take unneeded medicine.

So today I had steamed broccoli for breakfast, knowing that every little effort I try to stay healthy will help fight the sickness. I read yesterday though that there is no concrete evidence that vitamin C helps with colds. I ignored that anyways, because vitamin C is healthy anyways, whether one has a cold or not, and also because I watched a documentary called Food Matters, and one part was saying about how the previous studies give a minimum of vitamins to the sick (or something like that, I don't remember exactly). Oh yeah, and in the past, when I was beginning to get sick, I started taking in a lot of vitamin C, and the sickness wasn't too bad, nor too long. There may be no connection between the two, but it doesn't hurt either. Even I have my irrational moments.

dramatic, ey?

-Leo