Substance in broccoli helps clean up the harmful substancesfrom the lungs that accumulate in smoking, according to theresearch by scientists from Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.

Useful substance is sulforaphane. It has the ability toreactivating activity of macrophages - white blood cells that eliminate bacteria and other particles in their lungs.

Particular in the lungs of smokers is that this system of cleaning the respiratory organs is impaired because the chemicalsabsorbed by cigarette way interrupt chain processes initiated bymacrophages. The same problem is reported and in patientswith chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

According to an article in New Scientist component of broccolican be successfully applied against lung disease. Scientistssuggest that sulforafanat will improve lung function in humanswith COPD.


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