Superfoods part 12
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Today’s post: Tuesday, 5-2-2006 Superfoods & Honor Roll Foods, part 12
Garlic & Onions.
Two of the world’s kinds of cooking that are best for your health are Chinese & Italian.
Garlic & Onions are used a lot in Chinese & Italian foods & recipes.
Garlic & Onions make Chinese & Italian foods taste good & enjoyable to eat.
Garlic & Onions also contribute strongly to the health enhancing qualities of Chinese & Italian foods & recipes.
Garlic, particularly when served raw & minced, apparently has some antibiotic & antiviral effects.
This is significant -- since we don’t yet have good medicines to combat viruses & bacteria are gradually evolving to adapt to many antibiotics.
Garlic is clearly not strong enough by itself to be a treatment; but if your immune system is almost up to handling something, eating garlic regularly might be just enough to prevent you from getting sick.
And, when added to other things that are antiviral or which boost your immune system, garlic might be effective as part of a set of things that are useful as a treatment.
But its greatest value is that it protects the health of your blood vessels & heart & helps to prevent or help reverse cardiovascular disease.
Eating garlic regularly lowers high blood pressure by a bit in some people. And, one study I saw reported said that eating garlic regularly or taking it as a supplement, helped to reverse & clean out Calcium deposits in the arteries.
Garlic’s ability to lower LDL cholesterol is apparently not very high. But when it does seem to do is to make your blood vessels healthy & responsive. And the study about calcium deposits suggests that may be due to garlic preventing or clearing deposits of gunk inside your blood vessels.
I saw a film once that showed that when you eat a food high in animal based saturated fat, a soapy, sludgy, set of fat particles is released into your blood.
Onions apparently act like antifreeze & prevent these particles from sticking to the inside surfaces of your blood vessels.
I suspect that Garlic, which is biologically a relative of onions, may work by this mechanism also.
So, Garlic & Onions are clearly superfoods.
And, on those occasions when you are eating foods high in animal based saturated fat, spicing the meat with garlic &/or onions or having salad or a vegetable dish at the same meal which has plenty of garlic &/or onions, is somewhat protective.
Eating Thanksgiving dinner, cheese, hamburgers, lamb stew, pork chops, ham, bacon, sausage, & steak – or sweet & sour pork in a Chinese restaurant are all great occasions to use Garlic & Onions in this way.
Some people are allergic to or dislike Garlic & Onions. For those people as for those with very high cholesterol levels, such foods are less safe to eat.
Most people like Garlic & Onions when they are skillfully used in cooking. And, they have powerful health benefits.
In it we post health commentary & reviews of books, eBooks, & other things that improve or protect your health or which enable you to live longer, to be more prosperous, & to be more effective.
Today’s post: Tuesday, 5-2-2006 Superfoods & Honor Roll Foods, part 12
Garlic & Onions.
Two of the world’s kinds of cooking that are best for your health are Chinese & Italian.
Garlic & Onions are used a lot in Chinese & Italian foods & recipes.
Garlic & Onions make Chinese & Italian foods taste good & enjoyable to eat.
Garlic & Onions also contribute strongly to the health enhancing qualities of Chinese & Italian foods & recipes.
Garlic, particularly when served raw & minced, apparently has some antibiotic & antiviral effects.
This is significant -- since we don’t yet have good medicines to combat viruses & bacteria are gradually evolving to adapt to many antibiotics.
Garlic is clearly not strong enough by itself to be a treatment; but if your immune system is almost up to handling something, eating garlic regularly might be just enough to prevent you from getting sick.
And, when added to other things that are antiviral or which boost your immune system, garlic might be effective as part of a set of things that are useful as a treatment.
But its greatest value is that it protects the health of your blood vessels & heart & helps to prevent or help reverse cardiovascular disease.
Eating garlic regularly lowers high blood pressure by a bit in some people. And, one study I saw reported said that eating garlic regularly or taking it as a supplement, helped to reverse & clean out Calcium deposits in the arteries.
Garlic’s ability to lower LDL cholesterol is apparently not very high. But when it does seem to do is to make your blood vessels healthy & responsive. And the study about calcium deposits suggests that may be due to garlic preventing or clearing deposits of gunk inside your blood vessels.
I saw a film once that showed that when you eat a food high in animal based saturated fat, a soapy, sludgy, set of fat particles is released into your blood.
Onions apparently act like antifreeze & prevent these particles from sticking to the inside surfaces of your blood vessels.
I suspect that Garlic, which is biologically a relative of onions, may work by this mechanism also.
So, Garlic & Onions are clearly superfoods.
And, on those occasions when you are eating foods high in animal based saturated fat, spicing the meat with garlic &/or onions or having salad or a vegetable dish at the same meal which has plenty of garlic &/or onions, is somewhat protective.
Eating Thanksgiving dinner, cheese, hamburgers, lamb stew, pork chops, ham, bacon, sausage, & steak – or sweet & sour pork in a Chinese restaurant are all great occasions to use Garlic & Onions in this way.
Some people are allergic to or dislike Garlic & Onions. For those people as for those with very high cholesterol levels, such foods are less safe to eat.
Most people like Garlic & Onions when they are skillfully used in cooking. And, they have powerful health benefits.
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