Long Life with Garlic
A Chinese proverb says if you are 50 years and ate garlic for 50 days, increasing the age of 50 years. Research shows that garlic is a vegetable fruit are beneficial to health. Especially for longer life.
Ancient Greek philosophers Hippocrates advocated garlic to treat wounds of toxicity or bronchitis. The ancient Egyptians in 1500 BC, and garlic are known to protect against insect and snake bites or improve heart disease and cancer. Garlic is full benefits of natural food.
A Japanese researcher with research experiments on mice showed that the life span of mice can be extended to garlic. Included in the allicin content of garlic and gives it a distinctive odor, enhance the role of the body’s production of the antioxidant glutathione peroxidase and catalase species strong.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo has also said that garlic can rejuvenate the brain and immune status. Extracts of garlic to suppress neuronal cells of the brain damage that usually occurs in older people.
However, the garlic and also stimulates the branching of neurons in the brain. While the resistance also increases, garlic produces a lot of antibodies and lymphocytes, white blood cells to fight infection.
Research at the University of Minnesota in the United States confirms the amount of garlic. Older women who consumed garlic shown to reduce cancer risk by up to 50 percent. The prostate cancer cells were grown only 25 percent of normal speed.
Similarly, another study found that raw garlic and cooked food can stimulate fibrinolytic activity, which prevents blood clots in the veins of patients with heart disease.
A number of surveys and studies show that garlic is a vegetable that is very useful for the body. Very complex chemical mixtures fruit garlic is very helpful in reducing cholesterol, blood pressure, anti-thrombosis, and is able to prevent aging or longevity increases.
Consumption of garlic clove half each day can reduce cholesterol as much as 9 percent. However, for the treatment of heart disease, consuming up to 3 cloves of garlic a day regularly will be better. (*)
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