Garlic Efficacious Against Cancer and Heart Disease

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Garlic is now starting again examined by experts, and in fact the latest evidence stating garlic efficacious against cancer and heart disease. Dr. Richard Rivlin, of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Health records from China, India, Egypt, Greece and Italy have long used garlic as a medicine, Dr. Rivlin explained. They say that garlic is able to provide labor force and restore one's physical health. Hippocrates also recognize the benefits of garlic as one component of the drug.
Rivlin believes a moment of garlic can be used as food for preventing various diseases that may arise or as a therapeutic drug. Rivlin also said that garlic can be used as complementary medicine, not an alternative medicine.
The results of a recent study published in the Journal of Nutrition says the benefits of garlic are as follows:
- Selenium, a component contained in garlic, is useful as an anti-cancer drug.
- Garlic helps statins work to destroy the fatty blockage in patients with coronary heart disease.
- Garlic has the potential to lower cholesterol, blood pressure, and as anti-oxidants. It also helps to reduce levels of homocysteine​​, which is an amino acid as a sign of coronary heart disease.
- Garlic is efficacious as an "inhibit platelet aggregation" which greatly affects the occurrence of cardiovascular disease by holding job of calcium.
- Garlic may suppress the occurrence of precancerous lesions in the stomach.
- Garlic may suppress the growth of pre-cancerous lesions in the colon.
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