Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli and its relatives are among the healthiest ingredients of the human diet.

Whole-grain foods contain fiber, vitamins, minerals and other things that are removed during refining.

Whole-grain foods contain fiber, vitamins, minerals and other things that are removed during refining. We recommend that whole grain intake should start from a very young age to develop a healthy lifestyle. Cardiovascular changes and diabetes risk are starting to occur earlier now, especially due to the obesity epidemic.

Broccoli, when overboiled, produces a sulfuric stench that causes children to gag the instant they enter the house.

It's still important to eat a high-fiber diet. Even though our study didn't find a reduction for colorectal cancer, other studies show that high-fiber diets reduce the risk of heart disease and diabetes.

Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.