Comments on: How Healthy Is Garlic?

By: tonyboy

tonyboy — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 05:11:44 +0000

Thinly sliced garlic. Stir fried with plain peanuts on med heat 20-30 min….add nothing…ohhhh my god…tastes awsome with beer everyday and healthy also

By: Daniel Cowan

Daniel Cowan — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:17:04 +0000

Lemongrass comes to mind as an aromatic that could be added in a manner to garlic & ginger – I use all three.

By: Chris Lea

Chris Lea — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:33:35 +0000

I have no fear of vampires. That’s how much I like garlic.

By: baahar

baahar — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:51:07 +0000

I love garlic and eat it mostly because of its flavour. Many of our dishes are being served with yogurt+garlic. It seems that it can make any dish awesome
One old uncle of mine eats raw garlic every day to regulate his blood pressure levels. Back home I used to press 1-2 cloves into a glass of milk, bring it to a boil, put some honey in and drink it when I had a bad, bronchitis like cough. The cough would be gone the other day .. but beware ! Not every garlic tastes the same. I tried the same recipe some years later with local garlic here and it was bad .. very bad.

In my culture, most of the information about health benefits are rooted in tradition. After all, these food items (vegetables, herbs, etc.) are around for some time and scientists in the old days weren’t lying around lazily either Sure, they didn’t have the technical equipment of today, but followed basic scientific procedures to gain knowledge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_in_medieval_Islam#Scientific_method). Lately I hear of more and more scientists applying modern methods to verify or falsify these statements.

I find these things fascinating and would love to collect as much knowledge as possible. Hopefully I will be able to make time to study things that interest me so.

By: Mus

Mus — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:22:29 +0000

I proved myself healthier after three days of taking fresh garlic. No more ‘jerking’ while working up to another floor. It’s amazed me. Any one can try.

By: Darya Pino

Darya Pino — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:31:54 +0000

From my understanding, Korean food is supposed to have lots of garlic.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:45:56 +0000

I count 47 garlic bulbs in that picture. Any takers?
I do love garlic though. So do Italians. Is there any other type of food that garlic is more associated with than Italian?

By: Michelle @ Find Your Balance

Michelle @ Find Your Balance — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:08:46 +0000

The sound and smell of garlic being chopped on the cutting board = my mom’s kitchen.

By: Katie

Katie — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:19:04 +0000

My favorite part of your post was the eating diversely thing; I think its so important, and things just go downhill when we don’t have a lot of different things in our diets. Meals will also taste better if things are varied. Curious though, what kind of substitutes for garlic are out there? I mean, even though I like garlic I would like to add something to a stirfry that is like garlic, but not garlic. Like maybe ginger? Could I mince up some ginger and use it like garlic? What other options are out there…..?

By: Darya Pino

Darya Pino — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:31:52 +0000

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