THE JOY OF GARLIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Daanyeer]

Source: http://www.rps.psu.edu/may99/garlic.html
May 1, 1999 Author: David Pacchioli

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Who could then deny—slicing into that crisp, shining, milk-white crescent, releasing its juice, feeling its pungence chase instantly to a space deep behind my eyes—that this was some concentrated essence of life itself?

The Egyptians believed in garlic. The Codex Ebers, a medical text dating to 1,500 B.C., mentions garlic as a remedy for skin diseases, poisoning, heart problems, and tumors. Intact cloves of the stuff were found preserved in Tutankhamen’s tomb. In the Old Testament, the desert-wandering Israelites sadly remember "the fish which we did eat in Egypt so freely, and the pumpkins and melons, and the leeks, onions, and garlic." Hippocrates prescribed garlic for protecting the skin, and Greek athletes ate it before competing in the first Olympic Games. In ancient China and Japan, garlic was thought to provide energy, lift depression, and improve male potency; in India it was used to treat arthritis and leprosy.

I learned all these things—and more—during the first session at "Recent Advances on the Nutritional Benefits Accompanying the Use of Garlic as a Supplement," a Penn State conference held in Newport Beach, California, last November. Medieval Europeans used "the stinking rose" to ward off plague as well as vampires. Henry IV of France was baptized in water laced with the stuff. "Could all these people have been wrong?" asked conference director John Milner, head of Penn State’s nutrition program. Milner, the ebullient former president of the American Society for Nutritional Sciences and one of the early investigators of garlic’s inhibitory effects on cancer, was well-suited as master of ceremonies for the three-day event. Its object, he said, was to move beyond belief to a better understanding of garlic’s properties. To separate the medicine from the mystique.

The timing was certainly right. In the United States and elsewhere over the last ten years, consumption of garlic has boomed. As a foodstuff, garlic is suddenly everywhere; it’s the hyphen in hyphen-American cuisine. North Americans seem determined to atone for being the last to recognize its charms. "The catsup of intellectuals," Milner called it.

The health benefits associated with the stinking rose in modern times make an impressive list: lowered blood cholesterol and blood pressure (and therefore decreased risk of hardening of the arteries and stroke), prevention and/or suppression of various cancers, enhanced immune function, and suppression of infectious disease, among others. The most intense research buzz, not surprisingly, has been for garlic’s cardiovascular and anti-cancer effects.

"The fact that garlic lowers cholesterol does not necessarily mean that it has been effective on atherosclerosis," argued vascularcell biologist Julie Campbell, of the University of Queensland in Australia. "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." Campbell, in fact, found virtually no effect on bloodcholesterol levels when she gave aged garlic extract to rabbits fed on a diet high in fat. Yet her slides of these rabbits’ aortas needed little explanation: those of the garlic poppers looked pink and healthy, while the non-garlicked were streaked with the whitish fatty deposits that are the first sign of arterial hardening.

Nobuyoshi Nishiyama, professor of pharmacology at the University of Tokyo, presented similarly vivid results in a very different area. Nishiyama used genetically engineered mice to test garlic’s antiaging properties. So-called "senescenceprone" mice, he explained, are liable to learning and memory problems, brain atrophy, and early death—an accelerated process of aging, in other words. In the course of a ten-month study, Nishiyama reported, among a group of senescence-prone mice who sediet was not supplemented with aged garlic extract, almost 50 percent died. Of those given aged garlic extract, however, all survived—along with all the normal mice used as controls. Aged garlic extract also significantly improved performance on a pain-avoidance test and a water maze test designed to stir spatial memory, and it significantly lessened shrinkage of the brain’s frontal lobe.

[gurey25]

I dont know about sperm but, if you want to have allot of semen,
and also increase libido..


use Zinc.

a zinc tablet a day will in 2 weeks have visible results.

[Nagin]

^^^


anyways all I know garlic is good for the heart and can help with you any health issues.......

stay healthy , high fiber food, away from smoking and highly cholostrel food and 8 oz of water a day and 30 min of exerices will keep you fit........

[Daanyeer]

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