Health Benefits of Garlic - Everything about Garlic

Health Benefits
of Garlic

Garlic has a lot of antioxidants

Garlic is a champion carrier of antioxidants, posessiong at least fifteen different antioxidant chemicals. "This antioxidant activity may be garlic's promary underlying mechanism against disease", according to Dr. David Kritchevsky of Wistar Institute, Philadelphia.

What are antioxidants?

Nothing protects your health and extends life more than a steady supply of antioxidants to your cells. Food antioxidants are a huge, extended family of chemical warriors that directly oppose oxygen-charged molecules hell-bent on damaging cells. Antioxidants are a major police force of the body, thought to help deflect virtually all chronic diseases, including heart disease, cancer, bronchitis, cataracts, Parkinson's disease, and the aging process itself. A deficiency of these antioxidants can leave you extremely vulnerable, especially if you are exposed to hazards like cigarette smoke, industrial chemicals, air pollutants.

Garlic elevates your mood

Researchers testing garlic for its positive effects on blood and cholesterol noticed that garlic eaters also experienced a decided lift in mood, and had a greater feeling of wellbeing. Some researchers at the University of Hannover tested a special garlic preparation on people with high cholesterol. According to a questionnaire they filled, the garlic takers felt much better after the garlic therapy. They experienced much less fatigue, anxiety, sensitivity, agitation, and irritability. This mood-lifting bonus of 'garlic medication' is important and in sharp contrast to the adverse side effects of many pharmaceutical drugs, the researchers commented, speculating that "The widespread popularity of garlic preparations might possibly have its origin in their positive effects on people's feeling of well-being". On a side note, garlic supplements are the largest-selling over-the-counter drug in Germany.

Eat Garlic to Lower Triglycerides

Triglycerides are another type of blood fat, which have shown to promote heart attacks in high levels - especially in women over age 50 and in men with poor LDL/HDL cholesterol ratios. A Finnish study found that men with bad cholesterol ratios and triglycerides over 203 mg/dL had almost quadruple the risk of heart attack. But if cholesterol ratios were okay, triglycerides were not a hazard. The problem is that low HDLs and high tryglycerides usually go together. However...

A daily clove of garlic depressed triglycerides by about 13 percent in one study and by 25 percent in another. So, garlic is a good bet as a food to lower triglycerides.

Garlic helps nursing mothers

Suckling infants seem to like it when mothers eat strongly flavored odoriferous foods. A good whiff of garlic in mother's milk caused infants to take more of it and suck longer at the breast, according to new research. A little alcohol in mother's milk, however, put the babies off, depressing their appetites.

Good for your skin

Garlic can even help heal skin problems. When raw garlic is rubbed on a pimple (about three times a day) it usually disapears without leaving a scar. Garlic can be used on the skin to help even out the skin tone and get rid of blemishes, pimples, boils, and more. Garlic taken orally helps the skin as well.

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