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The “miracle herb”, the incredible healing power of garlic will help you fight a cold, soothe a sore throat, help lower your blood pressure, fight to control your cholesterol, help lower blood sugar levels and lots more.

Do you have one of those summer colds that has you feeling miserable? How about adding fresh garlic to your salads for starters as garlic contains the potent antibiotic allicin. Garlic will boost that immune system to bring relief and possibly you can avoid those summer colds. If you have a sore throat caused by a virus infection, as opposed to bacteria, eating your garlic can get you relief quicker also. You see garlic as been know to have antiviral and antifungal qualities also. It also works to provide sinus relief as it contains the same chemical found in a drug even to make mucus less sticky. You can even use a garlic press and get the juice from the clove and then put it into an eyedropper and put a small drop in each nostril for great results. Did you know that only eating one or two cloves of garlic a day may even help end those chronic episodes of earaches?

Lowering blood pressure is also critical to ones health and a very inexpensive to help with that also is the incredible healing power of garlic. Garlic has the tendency to keep the arteries clean and helps improve blood circulation, helps lower cholestol levels. That is why it is so important to include garlic in our daily diets

Garlic is great for children and our pets also. Garlic will help our bodies deal with lead and other heavy metals that creep into our foods with serious side effects. A great way to add garlic to our childrens meals would be a suggested use of adding it into a meal of spaghettic with a tomato-based sauce.

With summer here and all of the outdoor activites, eating garlic will help our bodies deal with Lyme disease and as aid in repelling all bugs that attack our bodies. Add extra raw fruits and raw veggies to our daily diets to keep our immune systems at optimum performance. Fresh chopped onions, peppers and also strawberries are other suggested helpers in helping keep our immune systems.

Now if you choose to not eat fresh garlic, I recommend you get a good quality supplement and use recommeded on the bottle for the incredible healing power of garlic. I know that fresh garlic is the main ingredient that I included in my daily diet and it has lowered my cholestrol, lowered my triglycerices, improved my immune system, helped me deal with allergies of which are definitely improved. Try it.

Irene

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Good afternoon,

I can’t eat garlic, it smells, it will make me smell, I’m not eating that stuff. Have you ever heard these kinds of comments about something so helpful and healthy as my friend, garlic? Yes, it is your friend also, if you will just allow it into your diet.

Start with chopping a small clove, just one small little piece that you break-off from the bulb, peel that paper-like skin off of it and trim that small hard piece off the bottom of that clove of garlic, and now chop it finely on top of that lettuce salad along with your chopped walnuts, chopped apples, a few fresh blueberries or raspberries, and a sprinkle of chopped Ginger also. Now top that off with some extra-virgin olive and apple cider vinegar to dress it up with. Doesn’t that sound great for dinner this evening? of course, you can vary the ingredients for that dinner salad and make it a complete meal for your family on these days when those temperatures are climbing up in the 80′s and above.

I’m all for that idea of keeping my house cooler and staying away from that stovetop.

Some more of the great benefits of adding garlic to healthy diets are

The compounds in garlic responsible for its pungency also excite a neuron pathway providing cardiovascular benefits. Garlic’s pungency-and that of the other members of the Alliumgenus of plants, such as onions, leeks and chives-results from its organosulphur compounds, allicin and diallyl disulphide (DADS). Allicin and DADS were found to activate perivascular sensory nerve endings, inducing the relaxation and enlargement of blood vessels, lowering blood pressure and improving blood flow throughout the body.

Look at all of garlic’s numerous beneficial cardiovascular effects are due to not only its sulfur compounds, but also to its vitamin C, vitamin B6, selenium and manganese:

Garlic is a very good source of vitamin C, the body’s primary antioxidant defender in all aqueous (water-soluble) areas, such as the bloodstream, where it protects LDL cholesterol from oxidation. Since it is the oxidized form of LDL cholesterol that initiates damage to blood vessel walls, reducing levels of oxidizing free radicals in the bloodstream can have a profound effect on preventing cardiovascular disease.

Garlic’s vitamin B6 helps prevent heart disease via another mechanism: lowering levels of homocysteine. An intermediate product of an important cellular biochemical process called the methylation cycle, homocysteine can directly damage blood vessel walls. You probably have seen articles talking about keeping healthy levels of homocysteines. Garlic is your weapon of defense here also.

The selenium in garlic not only helps prevent heart disease, but also provides protection against cancer and heavy metal toxicity. A cofactor of glutathione peroxidase (one of the body’s most important internally produced antioxidants), selenium also works with vitamin E in a number of vital antioxidant systems. Since vitamin E is one of the body’s top defenders in all fat-soluble areas, while vitamin C protects the water-soluble areas, garlic, which contains both nutrients, does a good job of covering all the bases.

Garlic is rich not only in selenium, but also in another trace mineral, manganese, which also functions as a co-factor in a number of other important antioxidant defense enzymes, for example, superoxide dismutase. Studies have found that in adults deficient in manganese, the level of HDL (the “good form” of cholesterol) is decreased.

Keep garlic in your pantry at all times, not only for the best storage place for it, but use it daily. It is your best defense for an all-natural antibiotic, it has been around since Bible times. It is one of my daily ingredients as I introduced it into my eating raw foods on a daily basis and another one of my reasons for sharing this information with you today.

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