More Cabbage Facts

Photo from Geigy

She loves to send me pictures of cabbage. For those of you who don't know, we love eating cabbage at the Bible College, the reason being, it is packed with all kinds of vitamins. This stuff is so good for you. Seriously, this is one of the resons that Eder has lost close to 60 pounds (30 kilos). Well, here are some more wonderful cabbage facts:

Cabbage is an excellent source of Vitamin C. It also contains significant amounts of glutamine, an amino acid which has anti-inflammatory properties. Cabbage can also be included in dieting programs, as it is a negative calorie food (citation needed).
It is a source of indole-3-carbinol, or I3C, a compound used as an adjuvant therapy for recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, a disease of the head and neck caused by human papillomavirus (usually types 6 and 11) that causes growths in the airway that can lead to death.
In European folk medicine, cabbage leaves are used to treat acute inflammation.[8] A paste of raw cabbage may be placed in a cabbage leaf and wrapped around the affected area to reduce discomfort.
Yeah! Let's hear it for Cabbage!