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Cruciferous vegetables like cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower have recently come under a lot of attention mainly for their anti-cancer effects. Broccoli, for instance, is a wonder food, one of the best nutrition bets around. Not only is broccoli high in fiber and vitamin C, it provides folic acid, calcium magnesium and iron. Certain chemicals found in broccoli and related vegetables appear to help prevent lung cancer – even in smokers.

Researchers from the National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences and Their colleagues in China studied people in Shanghai. The people in these Chinese communities eat a lot of cruciferous vegetables. They also smoke a lot, which puts them at higher risk for lung cancer. When the researchers tested the blood levels of the people who smoked and also ate a lot of cruciferous vegetables, they found that these people had a 36 percent lower cancer rate than the smokers who didn’t eat the cruciferous vegetables.
Scientists found that if you ate cabbage more than once a week you were only 1/3 as likely to develop colon cancers as someone who never ate cabbage. In other words, one serving of cabbage a week could cut your chances of colon cancer by 66 percent. Even if you ate cabbage once every two or three weeks, the risk dropped by forty percent.
The most effective members of the cruciferous family are: broccoli, Brussels, sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, cress, horseradish, kale mustard, radish and turnip.

Surgical castration (or bilateral orchidectomy) is the simplest and cheapest method to reduce a man’s testosterone levels for good. It involves removing both testicles during a short surgical procedure and this brings about an irreversible drop in testosterone levels. This method of reducing testosterone is the most rapidly effective, with levels dropping by 90 percent within hours of the operation.
The surgery itself can be performed either as day surgery or may require a night in hospital. Most men have a general anesthetic so that they are unaware during the procedure. However it can also be performed with a spinal anesthetic, where the patient feels nothing from the waist down, or more rarely a local anesthetic where an injection into the scrotum numbs the tissues before they are cut. A small cut is made in the scrotum. The blood vessels that supply the testicle and the vas deferens, the tube that carries the manufactured sperm back into the body prior to ejaculation, are tied and divided, then both testicles age removed. The scrotum is then sewn up again. So that the scrotum does not look empty some urologist will put in silicone plastic wishes them. A dressing will be put over the scrotum to prevent excess bruising or post-operative bleeding and this can be removed the following day. Most patients are discharged within 24 hours.