Today’s Solutions: August 18, 2026

Researchers from the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo have discovered that eating raw cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli and cabbage has been found to decrease the risk of developing bladder cancer by 40 percent. What’s astonishing about this study is that the participants ate only three or more servings of cruciferous vegetables a month! This study found these results among both smokers and non-smokers. In fact, non-smokers who participated in the study had a…

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