Garlic – vegetable you definitely should eat
What is garlic
Garlic is popular vegetable and ingredient for various meals, but not everybody knows its effects on human organism and health at all. Garlic is appreciated from long time ago. Already in antiquity was a garlic connected with some special powers and later it was believed it can be used against vampires. On old Egyptian scrolls there was found recipes from garlic for treatment of many diseases.
Almost endless list of its benefits
In short, garlic is beneficial for:
- cardiovascular health
- physical and sexual activity
- cognition
- resistance to infection and viruses
- anti-aging
- cholesterol reduction
- high blood pressure
- bones and joints
- immunity and inflammation
- antioxidation
- peripheral organ systems health
- anticancer
- and so on...
Just eat it!
Many people are discouraged by its typical smell which comes from garlic main curative sulfuric component. It fights against bacteria, viruses and molds. For example Staphylococcus aureus has about 560 tribes and garlic can kill more than 500 of them! So don't be one of these people whilst it has so much benefits!
The minimum effective dose of garlic is single segment of garlic bulb, eaten two or three times a day together with food. Garlic also might be toxic when intakes are too high.
So keep calm and eat garlic! :-D