Ahhh, The sweet smells of……. Garlic???
There’s a lot of benefits in growing up in a large Italian family. Sure, I’ve had a strong sense of faith, family and loyalty instilled in me but what I’m really grateful for and want to talk about (in this post at least) is the food, especially the pasta.
I’ll never forget coming home from school and getting hit with the sweet smell of home-cooked pasta sauce bubbling on the stove. Nothing kills stress or worry like a warm home-cooked meal at the end of a hard day. My mom knew it then and to this day will call to ask what I had for dinner that evening. A staple ingredient in a lot of the Italian dishes my mom cooked was garlic. What she didn’t know, and I’ve recently found out, are the nutritional benefits of that wonderful herb, including warding off cancer and heart disease. From the New York Times…
The power to boost hydrogen sulfide production may help explain why a garlic-rich diet appears to protect against various cancers, including breast, prostate and colon cancer, say the study authors. Higher hydrogen sulfide might also protect the heart, according to other experts. Although garlic has not consistently been shown to lower cholesterol levels, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine earlier this year found that injecting hydrogen sulfide into mice almost completely prevented the damage to heart muscle caused by a heart attack.
You can read the rest of the article here.
Unfortunately, most of us lead too busy of lives to actually make all the home-cooked dishes to ingest the amount of garlic needed to actually get the health benefits from it. We suggest using a pure, chemical-free garlic suplement as a natural health solution to ward off things like heart disease and high blood pressure.
Lisa & Dave Tambellini
Independent Shaklee Distributors
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