Garlicky Goodness: How Garlic Can Save You
Besides adding an incredible burst of flavor to your stir fry, garlic can actually help you fight disease by boosting your immune system and bolstering heart health. Add garlic to any meat, poultry, fish, or vegetable dishes for a healthy kick that could save your life!
• Garlic can help lower blood pressure, prevent blood clots, and serves as a natural blood thinner-three things you need to help treat hypertension.
• Garlic can slow down (and even prevent) the growth on cancer cells, especially when it comes to breast, stomach, prostate, bladder, and esophagal cancers.
• Garlic has anti-fungal and anti-bacterial properties. That means you can use to aid the treatment of intestinal parasites as well as yeast infections and other bacterial conditions.
• Garlic is the new generic Viagra. Garlic can help treat impotence by improving circulation (in the whole body and in the penis) and by helping the body produce nitric oxide synthase, an enzyme which help men achieve an erection.
• Garlic is even good for pregnancy. Women who run the risk for preeclampsia (pregnancy hypertension) should eat lots of garlic to help lower their blood pressure and control symptoms naturally.
• Fight off your next cold with garlic. Garlic gives weak immune systems a boost which means when a cold comes your way, you’ll be better equipped to fight it off.
• Lower bad LDL cholesterol and raise good HDL cholesterol by eating garlic. You’ll clear out your heart’s arteries, paving the way for smooth blood flow and a long and healthy future with your healthy heart! Complements Tricor beautifully.
The more raw the garlic is the better chance you have of absorbing the nutrients yourself rather than losing them to the cooking process. In fact, the next best thing to popping raw garlic cloves into your mouth is taking a garlic supplement-it’s a lot less stinky as well!
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December 4th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Many of the necessary vitamins are found in garlic as a natural antibiotic and food should be consumed in more than gives great flavor