The benefits and disadvantages of garlic for our health

Although many people have a special preference for garlic, that garlic both bactericidal anti-inflammatory, but also brain puzzle, eat any harm, but scientists believe that eating a daily raw garlic is more appropriate, if cooked garlic eat two or three Flap is enough, eat more and no benefit.

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Recently, the epidemic of SARS has gradually subsided. However, no one has dared to relax its efforts in prevention. Many people find various ways to improve their immunity. Because garlic can prevent and cure many diseases, it is also regarded as a healthy food, By a lot of people "sought after", many people are willing to brave the danger of "export smoked" Meng eat garlic. In fact, any healthy food to eat has the appropriate amount, scientists believe that eating a daily raw garlic (about 5 grams) is more appropriate, if it is enough to eat a two or three cloves of garlic, eat more helpless.

■ Garlic "eighteen martial arts"

Bactericidal anti-inflammatory: In 1954, the Soviet medical scientists confirmed that the garlic juice can kill bacteria in the medium within 3 minutes, with the development of medicine, allicin contained in garlic has a broad spectrum antibacterial effect has been proved one by one, It is on the epidemic meningitis virus, influenza virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, hepatitis virus, can cause severe meningitis Cryptococcus neoformans, pneumococcus, Candida, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, typhoid, paratyphoid bacilli, Amebic protozoa, Trichomonas vaginalis, Rickettsia, Staphylococcus, Shigella, Vibrio cholerae and other pathogenic microorganisms have a killing effect.

Prevention of cancer: Garlic can block the carcinogen --- nitrosamine synthesis, inhibition of cancer cell growth, killing of cancer cells. Garlic is rich in selenium, can accelerate the decomposition of the body of peroxide, reduce the oxygen supply required for malignant tumors, thereby inhibiting cancer cells. Scientists believe that garlic has preventive effects on leukemia, oral cancer, esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

Prevention of heart, cerebrovascular disease: Another nickname for scientists to garlic is the "blood scavenger," researchers found that people who eat garlic long-term deposition of blood vessels inside the wall than those who do not eat much lighter. And vascular wall deposition is a major cause of cardiovascular disease, a long time will make the artery obstruction, flexibility, causing stroke or myocardial infarction. Garlic can also reduce the viscosity of blood lipids and blood, anti-platelet aggregation, so that the risk of heart attack, cerebral thrombosis and cerebral hemorrhage was significantly reduced.

Promote hair growth: Garlic contains the volatile oil can speed up the blood flow to the sebaceous glands and hair follicles, thereby promoting hair growth, also have a therapeutic effect on baldness. Apply garlic to the scalp to improve hair growth and eliminate dandruff. If you add the same amount of vegetable oil head, but also ease the hair dryness.

Enhance immune function: Animal experiments show that fat-soluble garlic oil can significantly improve macrophage phagocytic function, enhance the immune system.

Anti-aging: garlic contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, with the prevention of vascular aging, immune decline and so on.

Brain puzzle: the ingredients in garlic and the body's combination of vitamin B1 can produce "garlic amine", this garlic amine can promote and play the role of vitamin B1, enhance carbohydrate oxidation for energy, provide enough energy for brain cells , Make thinking quick.

■ should not pay special attention to others views

However, everything has two sides, garlic also has its "taboo crowd."

Patients with liver disease should not eat: Many people think that garlic can anti-bacterial and anti-virus, so eat garlic to prevent hepatitis, and even some people still eat garlic every day after suffering from hepatitis. This approach is extremely unfavorable for patients with hepatitis, because garlic has no effect on hepatitis virus, on the contrary, some of the ingredients of garlic on the stomach, intestines and stimulate the secretion of intestinal digestive juice can inhibit the impact of food digestion, thereby aggravating hepatitis patients Nausea and many other symptoms. In addition, the volatile components of garlic can reduce the blood of red blood cells and hemoglobin, and may cause anemia, is not conducive to the treatment of hepatitis.

Non-bacterial diarrhea should not eat: the occurrence of non-bacterial enteritis, diarrhea, should not eat raw garlic. Because of the intestinal mucosal tissue inflammation, the intestinal wall itself vasodilation, congestion, swelling, increased permeability, a large number of body tissue proteins and electrolytes such as potassium, sodium, calcium, chlorine and liquid into the intestine, a large number of liquid to stimulate the intestine, Peristalsis to speed up, resulting in abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms. If you eat raw garlic, spicy flavor of allicin will stimulate the intestine, so that intestinal mucosal congestion, edema increased, and promote exudation, so that the disease worsened. If diarrhea has occurred, it should be more careful consumption of garlic.

Eye disease should not eat: Chinese medicine believes that the long-term consumption of garlic will "damage the liver injury eyes," Therefore, patients with ocular diseases should try not to eat garlic, especially poor health, blood deficiency patients should pay more attention, or longer time will be Occurred vision loss, tinnitus, top-heavy, memory loss and so on. Some people suffering from myopia or other eye diseases, need to take traditional Chinese medicine treatment, then do not taboo mouth, or directly affect the efficacy. In summer and autumn to eat a lot of garlic, the greatest impact on the eye.

■ Tips: How to eat garlic in addition to bad breath

Garlic is the best way to eat raw, but many people have a headache after eating mouthful of garlic smell. To reduce the bad breath of garlic, there are the following ways.

1. To eat with more protein-rich foods.

2. immediately after eating brushing mouthwash.

3. Drink milk, coffee, tea or eat fruit.

Chewing tea.

1. Eat jujube remove bad breath.

6 with vinegar or wine .