Article: A clove a day? (garlic)

Article: One form of flu out-killed a world war
Courier News (Elgin, IL);  April 28, 2009 ;     655 words ...World War I's shells, machine guns and poison gas ... lists 38 doughboys from Elgin who died in World War I. But only 15 were killed on the battlefield ... the street and went to school with bags of garlic around their necks (an old-wive's ...

Article: Hawaii's signature pig-out: The 50th state leads the U.S. in ...
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  March 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... many other places--teriyaki Spam, garlic Spam, barbecue Spam. McDonald's ... starts shortly after the beginning of World War II. After the attack on Pearl Harbor ... Blushing at my knife. All these years after World War II, Hawaii remains such a solid market ...

Article: 'Nothing up here but foreigners and coal slack': World ...
Montana; The Magazine of Western History;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... shop signs in Finnish and Italian, and the powerful smell of garlic coming from some residences (and residents) gave the town ... war effort, it followed, could not be a "real" American. World War I propaganda revolved around the concept of "100% Americanism ...

Article: 'We watched our mothers eke out rations and improvise' ; Wasting ...
Western Daily Press (Bristol UK);  July 16, 2008 ;     693 words ...Wasting food wasn't tolerated during World War II rationing, remembers Helen Reid One of my most vivid food ... fell on new exotic ingredients - fresh peaches! avocados! garlic! - and cooked them with a passion which was inspired by the ...

Article: garlic
Vegetarian Times;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... the 19th century, Louis Pasteur described garlic's antibacterial properties; and during World War I, Albert Schweitzer, MD, recommended it ... Rivlin. More recently, research has supported garlic's cold-fighting properties. In a 2001 ...

Article: Garlic can lower cholesterol slightly, some studies ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  December 29, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... could "clear the arteries." Garlic poultices were used to prevent ... infections from Roman antiquity through World War I. Garlic earned the nickname "Russian penicillin" during World War II because, after running out ...

Article: Garlic the spice of life
Better Nutrition;  February 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... the ages, herbalists have considered garlic a good carminative for digestive problems ... viral infections. In many cultures, garlic has been used to treat intestinal parasites. In World War I, garlic was widely used as an antiseptic. Writing ...