Broccoli is my favorite vegetable. It is available at any season making it the most popular health vegetable today. It has many health benefits that can prevent many diseases that is why it is called a super vegetable because of its full nutritious content.

Their are numerous health benefits of eating broccoli. One of them is its high vitamin C content. This helps absorption of iron in the body. Vitamin C helps prevents viruses especially colds. It is also high in folic acid which aids women is sustaining normal tissue growth.

If you are looking for potassium in bananas, don't look any further as broccoli is also rich in potassium which help lower high blood pressure. Calcium for bone health is another benefit of this super vegetable. Calcium helps prevent bone abnormalities such as osteoporosis and rickets, a bone formation disorder in children due to lack of calcium intake.

Another health benefit of this super vegetable is its fiber rich content which we all know aids in cleaning our digestive system and lowers blood cholesterol.

A study revealed that broccoli also helps prevent cancers such as prostate and breast by containing indole-3-carbinol, an anti-cancer fighting agent. It promotes good hormones while defending against destructive hormones.

Another benefit is beta carotene which promotes good eye health and later transforms into vitamin A which acts as an antioxidant for protection against free radicals. It also increases the levels of enzymes in your body which blocks cancers from mutating.

Other known benefits of broccoli are the following.

Lowers sugar level
Prevents Alzheimer's disease
Avoid calcium deficiencies
Certain cancers
Arthritis
Prevent forming of tumors and cysts
Heart diseases
Anti-aging

It seems that broccoli's health benefits are endless. That is why it is only mandatory that we eat this wonder food regularly.