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Tuesday • September 16,
Eat your veggies
Study shows sprouts contain cancer fightei
WASHINGTON (AP) — Good
news for people who hate broccoli: A
study shows there is up to 50 times
more anti-cancer chemical in broc
coli sprouts than in the mature veg
etable — and the sprouts don’t taste
like broccoli.
Three-day-old broccoli sprouts,
which are tender shoots topped
with two baby leaves, are loaded
with a concentrated form of sul-
foraphane, a powerful cancer fight
er, say researchers at Johns Hopkins
University.
Dr. Paul Talalay, head of a team at
Hopkins that discovered sul-
foraphane five years ago, said he was
surprised that die sprouts contained
such a high level of the anti-cancer
compound.
“If these are developed commer
cially, this could be a really easy way
for people to get the benefits of
chemoprotection against cancer,”
said Talalay.
A report on the research was be
ing published Tuesday in the Pro
ceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences.
Earlier studies showed that sul-
foraphane, found in broccoli, cauli
flower and some other vegetables,
prompts the body to make an en
zyme that prevents tumors from
forming. A1994 study indicated that
cancer development was reduced by
60 percent to 80 percent in laborato
ry animals fed sulforaphane extract
ed from broccoli.
Talalay said that diet studies have
shown that eating 2 pounds of broc
coli a week can provide enough sul
foraphane to lower colon cancer risk
by half.
Talalay said his lab has found that
the sulforaphane content in broccoli
from a grocery store can vary by a fac
tor of eight or 10 and there is no way
to identify a vegetable loaded with
the compound from one that is not.
“They look the same,” he said. "It
is impossible to tell a highly protec
tive broccoli from a poorly protective
broccoli.”
Broccoli sprouts may solve this
problem, said Talalay, because the
baby plants have a uniformly high
level of sulforaphane.
“Because of the high content (of
sulforaphane), it is possible to con
sume far lower quantities of the
sprouts and get the same protec
tion,” he said.
Broccoli sprouts resemble the
alfalfa sprouts now common in gro
cery stores, but they have more fla
vor, said Talalay. And the broccoli
sprouts do not have the sharp tang of
mature broccoli that many people,
such as former President Bush, find
unpleasant.
“They have a far more interesting
taste than ordinary sprouts,” saidl;
lalay. “You can use them in sail!
wiches or salads.”
Talalay said the broccoli sprot
take just three days to grow Etc
seeds, in contrast to the 55 to 70dji
it takes to grow a mature broct!
plant.
Broccoli sprouts are not ni
grown commercially, butTalalaya
that if other researchers confirmt
findings of his lab, it could encouui c
growers to start producing thebi:
broccoli as a new vegetable
health-conscious shoppers.
“This is an important findii
said Michael Bennett, a professoi;
the University of Texas, Southwt
Medical Center and an expert onii 0
and cancer. He said that diets ridi
broccoli and other vegetables ha;-
proven benefit to health butthaft
important thing is getting people y (
eat them.”
Survey: Americans puzzled by Constitution
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pop quiz: How many
U.S. senators are there?
One in two Americans do not know the an
swer is 100, according to a survey on the U.S.
Constitution released Monday. And two in five
don’t know there are three branches of govern
ment, let alone what they are.
Mayor Edward G. Rendell of Philadelphia,
where the Constitution was signed 210 years
ago this Wednesday, said the results were dis
appointing.
“That shows an appalling lack of knowledge
for a document that determines what we do,”
said Rendell, chairman of the National Consti
tution Center, created by Congress in 1988 to in
crease awareness of the document. “Every day,
issues important and central to us as people and
government are affected by the Constitution.”
Fewer than one in five surveyed were able to
correctly answer at least eight of 10 basic ques
tions, such as how long senators serve (six
years), who nominates Supreme Court justices
(the president) and what the first 10 amend
ments to the Constitution were called (the Bill
of Rights).
Rendell, whose group sponsored the survey,
“That shows an appalling lack of
knowledge for a document that
determines what we do.”
EDWARD G. RENDELL
CHAIRMAN
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER
did find a ray of hope in findings that 91 per
cent consider the Constitution important and
77 percent believe it has an impact on their dai
ly lives — even if many of them cannot say pre
cisely how.
“The good news,” Rendell said, “is they have
a great reverence for the Constitution."
Rendell said the lack of knowledge sta
partly from an education system that tends
treat the Constitution in the context ofhisto:
rather than as a living document thatshap
current events.
The survey also found that:
—16 percent incorrectly believe theQ
stitution declares Christianity the officialll
religion.
—35 percent wrongly believe the docura
declares English the premier language.
—24 percent cannot name any oftheFi
Amendment rights, and only 6 percentc
name all four: freedom of speech, press
sembly and religion.
The telephone survey of 1,000 U.S. citize:
conducted by the New York communicafe
firm of Shepardson, Stern & Kaminsky,h
margin of error of plus or minus 3 perceni
points. Respondents were asked a series
open-ended and true-false questions.
Helms battles over
federal arts funding
WASHINGTON (AP) —The annual battle over federal
arts funding moved to the Senate Monday with conserva
tive Sen. Jesse Helms urging elimination of the National En
dowment for the Arts.
The House has already stripped funding for the NEA
from a fiscal 1998 spending bill and Senate acceptance of
the Helms measure would set up a confrontation with the
White House, which strongly supports the agency respon
sible for federal subsidies for the arts.
Helms, R-N.Q, contends that the NEA funds programs
that many Americans find objectionable or blasphemous.
“It is self-evident that many of the beneficiaries of NEA
grants are contemptuous of traditional moral standards,”
he said in a floor speech.
He said the NEA caters to “phony, self-appointed artists
who insist on using the American taxpayers’ money to fi
nance anything they want to drag up from the sewer and
declare to be art.”
The NEA, founded by President Johnson in 1965, pro
vides grants for nonprofit and community art groups.
NEA spokeswoman Cherie Simon said legislative re
strictions and internal reforms have solved past complaints
of problematic funding, and that the NEA didn’t even fund
some of the programs that Helms condemned.
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., spoke of NEA backing for
theater groups that bring Shakespeare to tiny towns in his
home state. It would be a shame to focus on a few mistakes
when there are so many good worthwhile projects that the
NEA has made a reality.”
. .„ A vo 1 te ]1 on the Helms amendment, attached to a $13.7
billion bill to fund Interior Department and Indian pro
grams m fiscal 1998, is expected as early as Tuesday. The bill
currently includes $100 million for the NEA.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the
Smithsonian Institution said Monday the
museum has no intention of changing a
planned exhibit on sweatshops that some
clothes makers have called biased.
The California Fashion Association,
which represents major clothing firms, last
week accused the Smithsonian of taking a
“political position” by focusing on sweat
shop conditions rather than on the apparel
industry’s contributions to American busi
ness.
The show is scheduled to open April 15 at
the National Museum of American History
in Washington.
It will include a reconstruction of an El
Monte, Calif., factory where 70 undocu
mented Thai immigrants were discovered
in 1995 working under slave-like condi
tions, sewing clothes for brand-name
makers.
Asked Monday if he would consider re
shaping or canceling the exhibit, the Smith
sonian’s secretary, I. Michael Heyman, said,
“Not at all.”
Use Metchek, the fashion group’s execu
tive director, contends the show is negative,
unbalanced and unduly influenced by labor
unions — a claim refuted by the museum.
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another Enola Cay,” Metchek said, refe
ring to a 1995 controversy over an exhi
it of the plane that dropped the atom
bomb on Japan.
Heyman said Monday the sweatshc
show’s planners had tried to getcoopf
ation from the clothing industry. Iftk
effort remains unsuccessful, officialsir
try to get input from individual manufc
turers, he said.
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ment and an apparel labor union.
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