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Article: Benefits of fresh garlic put to the test
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
- Article date:
- March 10, 2003
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Benefits of fresh garlic put to the test -- Volunteers will take a
clove a day for NIH study
By SHARI ROAN, Los Angeles Times
Date: 03-10-2003, Monday
Section: HEALTH
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Few people would want to eat a clove of fresh, odoriferous garlic
almost every day for months.
But dozens of residents of Palo Alto, Calif., and surrounding communities
are volunteering to do just that in one of the most unusual and important
studies on garlic ever done.
During the last 20 years, hundreds of studies have attempted and failed
to establish whether garlic can help lower cholesterol. But Stanford
University researcher ...