‘Christmas is coming’ said mum as she arrived home this evening clutching a big bag of sprouts.
‘Woof and double woof’ we replied, scurrying around her trying to get our sniffers into the bag.
Charlie and the first of the seasons sprouts
Readers of our blog may have read that we love our sprouts and when they are in season we just can not get enough of the little fellas.
The return of the sprouts means we can say goodbye to our summer sustaining substitute of broccoli, or ‘little trees’ as we prefer to call them.
Interestingly the British Heart Foundation has released details of a study it commissioned with Imperial College London recently into the brassica family (the human’s posh word for little trees).
The report seems to suggest that a chemical found in vegetables such as broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower, can boost a natural defence mechanism to protect arteries from disease in humans.
We wondered if the same chemical, Sulforaphane, may help reduce our cholesterol levels and switch on the protective protein indicated in the research, assuming we have it.
You never know it may also have other health benefits for us pooches?
Until next time
Charlie and Buster
Further information
Alternative Therapies for Canine Cancer – Beta Glucan Supreme
A very technical paper related to the Nrf2 protective protein
