Comparing Consumption of Green Leafy Vegetables to Cruciferous Vegetables in Relations to Incidence of 17 Different Cancers: A Meta-Analysis
Cancer is a group of over 100 different types of malignancies and there are several potential substances in green leafy vegetables (GLV) and cruciferous vegetables (CV) that my exhibit anticancer effects [1]. GLV are leaf vegetables, greens, vegetable greens, leafy greens or salad greens. They come from a very wide variety of plants all over the world, with nearly one thousand species of plants with edible leaves are known. Table 1 shows 11 of these GLV and some of the elements and phytochemicals that may reduce the incidence of cancer, and these same GLV are high in Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Vitamin K, and Vitamin A [2].
