w3 A Super Food most of you cook with
God has blessed us with some many good things!!!
Garlic is a super food that everyone should eat. Research shows that those who eat a diet high in garlic have less of a chance of developing stomach cancer. Garlic contains alliin which helps slow the growth of tumors and inhibits the formation of esophageal, stomach, and colon cancer.
Garlic also has antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, and antiparasitic properties.
Garlic is one of the first things I eat when I start to feel something coming on. I eat one clove if it is to harsh I would mince it in some fresh salsa or something like that.
Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge”
Christie
womenwhoworship said,
November 12, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Are you serious? You eat a clove of garlic raw and whole when you start to get sick?
So, I am not yet convinced about this “super food”. What is a diet ‘high’ in garlic mean? How much garlic per day?
And when you have a cold and eat a clove of garlic, what happens then? Do you not get a cold? Or does it last a shorter period of time? Or what?
Interesting stuff, but I would like to know more and where you got this information.
Thanks, Sunshine
Martha Town said,
November 12, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Our Russian son, Danil, used to eat raw garlic like candy when he was feeling a cold coming on. And he usually got better very quickly! I used to tease him that the germs could not stand his breath. He would smell up the whole house eating garlic and raw onions.
I think Garlic has been seen as a beneficial food for ages. We love roasted garlic, and I love salsa and dips with lots of garlic. So, Sunshiine….you better ask for a garlic press and a garlic roaster for Christmas!
-Martha
womenwhoworship said,
November 13, 2007 at 11:07 am
Don’t forget the cute little garlic pot with the holes in it to store the fresh garlic!
Another thing Christine is interested in is something I have started doing on a regular basis to prevent infections so my immune systyem is free to fight off the cancer cells. Jordan Rubin suggests what he calls, “Advanced Hygine”. Remember, microbs rearely fly, they hitchhike. Our nose, ears and eyes are the most common receptors of infectious contaminants. Keeping our hands clean as Christine previously mentioned, is our first line of defense with infectious disease.
In Jordan’s book on cancer, it suggests twice a day digging your fingernails 4-5 times into a soft bar of soap*, and washing your hands in the hottest water you can tolerate making sure to focus on your cuticles and under the fingernails. I use a nail brush to get under my nails. Then using the same soap, wash your face. After you have done this, Jodran suggests “snorkling in the sink”. I use a small bowl that I can emerse my entire face in. To “snorkle” I use 4 drops of a Providone solution, (Jordan calls for a mineralized Iodine solution, but this is Adrian.) and two tsp. of table salt in hot water. Once my face is washed, I dunk my face in the salt solution, open my eyes for as long as I can and then come up for air. Next, I dunk my face again and begin to blow bubbles in the solution drawing the solution into my nose allowing some to drain into my mouth and the rest I blow back out my nose. I spit water in my mouth out. This flushes your sinuses of contaminants and cleans the tear ducts in your eyes. Three times a week Jordan recommends cleaning your years with a few drops of Hydrogen Peroxide diluted with water or “Biblical Oils”. I use water.
* I use the Olive Oil soap made by Kiss My Face, which I soaked to soften.
Since I began this routine, we’ve had several ourbreaks of Conjunctivitis (pink eye), and numerous ENT infections among the children at work. Though I’ve still had my Autum stuffy nose, I have not succumb to any of the infections which are plauging the daycare. Right now my boss is sick with the sinus infection our children are passing around… Cat
womenwhoworship said,
November 13, 2007 at 4:43 pm
I am still not sure about this garlic thing. And I definitely am not for the snorkling… especially the open your eyes in the salt and iodine water.
You ladies are amazing. More power to you. I will continue with my shower, deodorant, teethbrushing and handwashing. If I get sick, I will go to the doctor.
That’ll work for me.
Sunshine
womenwhoworship said,
November 13, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Have you ever been to the ocean and gone swimming? The iodine and salt water is no more bothersome than swimming in saltwater with your eyes open. As a matter of fact, it’s a whole lot less irritating than swimming in a chlorinated pool which is why I came back. I forgot to mention that the “snorkling” is best done in water that is NOT chlorinated. Chlorine will burn the living daylights out of your sinuses with the salt and iodine… Cat
womenwhoworship said,
November 13, 2007 at 11:07 pm
No, never been to the ocean and opened my eyes in the saltwater.
And we get un-clorinated water from where? Seems a little toooooo complicated for me.
Sunshine
womenwhoworship said,
November 18, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Sorry, it took me so long to respond. Garlic is very power properties and their has been a lot of research on it. One of my sources is Dr. Don Colbert’s book What You Don’t Know Might Be Killing you! On page 191, he talks about the research and he recommends 500-600 mil. three times a day. My other source of info. comes from Tarig Abdullah, M.D. and his colleagues at the Akbar Clinic and Research Center in Panama City , Florida. They conducted several studies that showed garlic dramatically lowered risks of cancer and boost your immunity. One example from the research was they took blood from Dr. Adbullah who ate 12-15 cloves of garlic a day and then he took blood form 9 people supplementing with garlic and they took blood form 9 others who took nothing. He mixed the blood with cancer cells. They found that those supplementing and eating garlic destroyed 140-160 %more cancer cells than did killer cells from non garlic eaters.
Dr. Benjamin Lau from Loma Linda University got dramatic results from Kyolic concertrated garlic extract. It lowered LDL blood cholestrol and trig,. In about 60-70 % of volunteers. Good HDL went up.
I personally love garlic I have used it for years I have found for myself it’s just as effective at the onset or in the middle of a cold. I would encourage you to add garlic to your soup, stir- fry, or fresh salsa.
Christie
womenwhoworship said,
November 19, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Thanks Christie, these are good sources. Thanks for your response…. Love to hear the sources when you write about stuff.
Sunshine