The 10 Healthiest Foods on the Planet

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Broccoli

Why It's Healthy:

-- One medium stalk of broccoli contains more than 100 percent of your daily vitamin K requirement and almost 200 percent of your recommended daily dose of vitamin C -- two essential bone-building nutrients.

-- The same serving also helps stave off numerous cancers.

Quick Tip:

Zap it! Preserve up to 90 percent of broccoli's vitamin C by microwaving. (Steaming or boiling holds on to just 66 percent of the nutrient.)

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ptgirl100 wrote:

This is the first time I have heard this about microwaves. I'd like to see the valid research on this.

5/4/2013 12:02:40 PM Report Abuse

jessicaraynolff wrote:

There is nothing wrong with the microwave.

3/5/2013 02:50:02 PM Report Abuse

tuffhombre wrote:

Terrible information. Telling people to microwave food. Microwaves changes the cell structures in foods making them unrecognizable and unusable by the human body. In a perfect world, the microwave should be considered a piece of junk and scrapped.

2/23/2013 02:10:28 PM Report Abuse