Russ Bianchi said: The segmentation, and PR bravado by science press releases, that one veggie or fruit or botancial specific nutrient value is BEST, really plays into Big Pharma drug attempts to pop up it's totally corrupt, dangerous, non effective, expensive, & feeble attempts to confuse, in an effort to bolster their dangerous reactive protocol brand sales.

I think you're attributing maliciousness to Big Pharma that can actually be explained by stupidity.

If you look at the Scientific method, you can see that it seeks to draw conclusions based on conducting experiments wherein the variables are minimized. This will inevitably lead to the idea that for every problem, there is a single, simple solution. And it's precisely that notion that dominates our society - as evidenced by the "take a pill" mentality.

What Science has failed to comprehend is that Life isn't a thing that you can narrow down to only one cause. People are finely networked systems, and when one part of a system has a problem, it results in the crashing of other sysems. In other words, you can't eliminate all the variables.

Science understands very little when it comes to the complexity of human beings, and the system Science uses to find answers doesn't apply very well because it's specialized in finding the details - often at the expense of the entire, whole view.

In essence, what I'm saying is that Big Pharma won't ever learn because it can't - the system it uses for study is flawed. The solution is a more holistic view, which, unfortunately, is not backed by Science (yet).

Very Well Said Maj!

Uncle Russ

Dr. Mercola: Please note that there many hight content sulphoraphane vegetables including watercress, cauliflower, arugula, red and black radishes. It is nothing unique to brocolli and unlike some of the cruciferous veggies, red globe radishes are actually beneficial for the thyroid.

Maj said: I think you're attributing maliciousness to Big Pharma that can actually be explained by stupidity....if you think these guys are merely stupid, then you are amazingly naive....they are downright evil and greedy....even when they know better, they do the wrong thing....what about payoffs to "so-called scientists" to produce the conclusions they desire, payoffs to the FDA, USDA, etc. and hiding information about their dangerous products?...I agree with most of the rest of your post...

Nah just use GMO to make the broccoli the shape of an umbrella........

I've heard it's actually best to ferment broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables as if you eat them raw they will depress your thyroid. Anyone know anything more about this?

I read somewhere(can't remember where)that broccoli must be lightly cooked and eaten with tomatoes for the body to derive the the best nutrients.I am sorry Mary but eating broccoli raw is a NO,NO.

Thanks!  This is precisely what Vital Votes is all about.  Serving as a forum to gather the truth.

Really? How does that work? :D