Broccoli is a vegetable of the family of cabbage, known also as 'sprout'. In the past broccoli was not so well known for its great advantages to health and body shape. Even if you don't follow a diet, tryting to lose weight, broccoli is very good, for preventing osteoporosis, as it contains calcium, as it's said unlike other vegetable of its category.
Also for diet and losing weight it's ideal: You can it eat steamed, thus boiled in water, the way it is, thus dry, or with a bit of oilive oil and lemon, just replacing salad. OR you can eat it as ingredient of salad, along with lettuce, green peppers, tomato and onion. It's very good and recommended for diet, has vitamins to help you lose weight, in a way for ex: if you eat grilled steak and fried potatoes, it will still reduce number of calories, and burn fat.Or if you eat it exclusively a sproduct of diet, it will help you losing weight in a direct way. It also helps avoiding cancer, and heart attack.
We should definitely incorporate it to our meals, the ways above.