Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Garlic



I love garlic!! Growing up my parents put garlic in everything. Now I put it in everything too. Garlic has so many healing properties. So not only does your food taste a whole lot better, it can make your body healthier as well.

      Let's start with the effects it has on your heart. Having garlic can lower blood pressure, lower triglycerides, lower LDL (bad) cholesterol and break up blood clots. These are hereditary traits that can be passed down from your parents or grandparents to you and your kids why not add more fresh garlic into your diet and try to lower you and your families’ risk.

      Next garlic had anti-inflammatory properties. There are certain properties found in garlic that can decrease inflammation in the body. It can help to protect your arteries, reduce the severity of asthma and it can help protect joints such as rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis.

      Lastly to go hand in hand with inflammation, garlic can help fight the common cold. To get the full benefit you should eat or swallow garlic raw. You can chop it up then swallow it like you would cough syrup. I like to add raw garlic to chicken broth.

      The main property in garlic that makes it so great for you is called allicin. If you try to have about 5 milligrams of allicin a day you should reap the benefits of it. With all these healing properties and how great it makes your food taste why not eat it as much as possible.
 
Live Healthy,
    Nadia

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