Collard Greens, the Health Promotion Remedy

By Kyle J. Norton

Collard Greens is considered a functional food that promotes publish health against heart disease and cancer.

The heart formed part of the circulatory system is a muscular organ pumping blood through the blood vessels to nourish the cells, tissues, and organs of the body.

Heart disease is a class of condition associated with reduced function of the heart due to damage of the structure, including the heart muscle.

According to the statistics provided by the CDC, in the US, over 60 million Americans are living with some forms of heart disease. Every year about 735,000 Americans have a heart attack, including 525,000 of first heart attack and 210,000 of a recurrent heart attack.

Believe it or not, heart disease is a leading cause of death in the US, accounting for 1 in every 4 deaths.

Cancer is a group of medical and chronic conditions caused by irregular cell growth in the tissue of a specific organ due to the alternation of cell DNA.

Most cases of invasive cancer start in the cell on the surface of the inner lining of specific gland and organ before proliferating to deeper layer to form a tumor.

The National Cancer Institute, In 2018, over 1,735,000 new cases of cancer were diagnosed in the United States. The disease also causes the death of over 609,000 of Americans in the same year.

Some researchers suggested the increased risk of heart disease and cancer in the US over the past few decades may be correlated to the promotion of a high-fat diet that causes the incidence of obesity.

Dr. Ryan J. Koene, the lead scientist said, "CVD and cancer possess various similarities and possible interactions, including a number of similar risk factors (e.g. obesity, diabetes), suggesting shared biology for which there is emerging evidence".

And, "While chronic inflammation is an indispensable feature of the pathogenesis and progression of both CVD and cancer, additional mechanisms can be found at their intersection".

Collard Green is a species of Brassica Oleracea, belongings to the family Brassicaceae with unknown origin. Today, the plant is cultivated commercially for its thick, slightly bitter edible leaves.

With an aim to find a potent and natural compound for the prevention of heart disease, researchers examined the effect of collard greens on lowering recirculation of bile acids and health promotion in the utilization of cholesterol to synthesize bile acid and reduced fat absorption.

Eight replicate incubations in the study included a substrate only, a bile acid mixture only, and 6 with the substrate and bile acid mixture were compared to Cholestyramine (a cholesterol-lowering, bile acid-binding drug) as positive control treatment and cellulose as the negative control.

Compared to the Cholestyramine collard greens, showed a 13% bile acid-binding on dry matter basis.

Furthermore, collard greens demonstrated a health-promoting potential far better than those of other testing vegetables including kale and Brussel sprout.

Moreover, steam cooking collard greens also exerted a significant improvement in vitro bile acid-binding activity.

Based on the findings, researchers after taking other factors into account wrote, "Inclusion of steam-cooked collard greens, kale, mustard greens, broccoli, green bell pepper, and cabbage in our daily diet as health-promoting vegetables should be emphasized".

In other words, regular and daily consumption of green/leafy vegetables, particularly in steam cooking, would lower the risk of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer, and improve public health.

Taken altogether, collard green may be considered a functional food for the promotion of overall health, pending to the confirmation of the larger sample size and multicenter human study.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrition, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published online, including worldwide health, ezine articles, article base, health blogs, self-growth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
Named TOP 50 MEDICAL ESSAYS FOR ARTISTS & AUTHORS TO READ by Disilgold.com Named 50 of the best health Tweeters Canada - Huffington Post
Nominated for shorty award over last 4 years
Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bioscience, ISSN 0975-6299.

Sources
(1) Steam cooking significantly improves in vitro bile acid binding of collard greens, kale, mustard greens, broccoli, green bell pepper, and cabbage by Kahlon TS1, Chiu MC, Chapman MH. (PubMed)
(2) Shared Risk Factors in Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer by Ryan J. Koene, MD,1 Anna E. Prizment, PhD,2,4 Anne Blaes, MD, MS,3 and Suma H. Konety, MD, MS. (PubMed)