Article: Should you be getting more garlic? EN weighs the evidence.(Environmental Nutrition)

Garlic's healing powers are legendary. Over the centuries, it's been hailed by the ancient Egyptians, Israelites and Chinese, and praised by Mohammed, Charlemagne and Hippocrates. Can they all be wrong?

Modern science has begun to think not. In the past 20 years, researchers have contributed more than 1,300 studies on this pungent member of the Allium family, which includes onions, shallots, chives and leeks.

Fondly dubbed the "stinking rose," garlic has been used to treat everything from cancer and heart disease to athlete's foot and the common cold. Unfortunately, most of garlic's purported benefits have yet to be scientifically proven. Just where ...

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