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Article: Nutrition hotline.(health benefits by garlic)(Report)
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- Vegetarian Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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This issue's Nutrition Hotline examines popular claims that garlic can improve many vital aspects of your health.
QUESTION: "Are all the health claims I hear about garlic true? Some of my family and friends swear by it."
ANSWER: You're likely not the only person who knows someone on a garlic binge. A lot of claims are made for health-enhancing effects of garlic, promising, for instance, that garlic can kill germs, protect your heart, and prevent colds.
Or that garlic cures acne, improves your sex life, and repels mosquitoes (apparently in addition to vampires).
Garlic--a plant in the allium family, related to onions and leeks--has been ...