What people eat garlic on the pros and cons?

Although many people have a special liking for garlic, garlic think both bactericidal anti-inflammatory, but also brain puzzle, eat anyway, but scientists believe that eating raw garlic a day is more appropriate, if two or three eat cooked garlic flap is enough, eat no benefit.

Recently, SARS epidemic died down, but we did not dare to relax for the prevention, many people find various ways to improve their immunity, because garlic can prevent and treat a variety of diseases, it is believed to be a health food, by many people "hot pursuit", a lot of people willing to risk their "export smoked," the Mengchi garlic. In fact, any health food tastes have an appropriate amount, scientists believe that eating raw garlic a day (about 5 grams) is appropriate, if it is cooked garlic to eat twenty-three is enough, eat good.

■ garlic "versatile,"

bactericidal anti-inflammatory: In 1954, the Soviet Union physician to confirm the garlic can kill bacteria in the culture medium in 3 minutes, with the development of medicine, garlic contains allicin has a wide eleven spectrum antibacterial effect was demonstrated, its epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis virus, influenza virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, hepatitis virus, can cause severe meningitis is Cryptococcus neoformans , Streptococcus pneumoniae , Candida, Mycobacterium tuberculosis , typhoid, paratyphoid bacillus, amoeba , vaginal trichomoniasis, Rickettsia , Staphylococcus aureus , Shigella , Vibrio cholerae and other pathogenic microorganisms have a role in the killing.

Cancer prevention: --- garlic capable of blocking the synthesis of carcinogenic nitrosamines, inhibit cancer cell growth, kill human cancer cells. Garlic contains selenium rich, can accelerate the decomposition of peroxides in vivo, reducing the supply of oxygen required for malignant tumor, thereby inhibiting cancer cell. Scientists believe that garlic leukemia, oral cancer, esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer have a preventive effect.

Prevention of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease: Another scientist to garlic nickname is "vascular scavenger", the researchers found that long-term eating garlic in human vascular wall deposition is much lighter than people who do not eat. And the blood vessel wall deposition is a major cause of cardiovascular disease, a long time will make clogged arteries, elastic variation, causing a stroke or myocardial infarction. Garlic can also lower blood lipids and blood viscosity, platelet aggregation, so that heart disease, cerebral thrombosis and seizures greatly reduced risk of cerebral hemorrhage.

Promoting hair growth: Garlic contains a volatile oil can accelerate the blood flow to the hair follicles and sebaceous glands of speed, so as to promote hair growth on bald also have a therapeutic effect. The garlic dressing on the scalp can improve hair growth, elimination of dandruff. If you add the same amount of vegetable oil dressing head, but also alleviate the dryness of the hair.

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

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

JiannaoYizhi: garlic ingredients and vitamin B1 in the human body to produce binding "garlic amine", amines such garlic and promotes the role of vitamin B1, enhance carbohydrate oxidation for energy to provide sufficient energy to brain cells so quick thinking.

■ should pay special attention to the crowd

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

Patients with liver disease should not eat: Many people think that garlic can antibacterial and antiviral, so he used to eat garlic to prevent hepatitis, and even some people still eat garlic every day after hepatitis. This practice is extremely detrimental to patients with hepatitis, hepatitis virus because no effect of garlic, on the contrary, some components of garlic on the stomach, intestines and stimulating effect, can inhibit intestinal secretion of digestive juice, affecting food digestion, thereby increasing patients with hepatitis nausea and many other symptoms. Further, volatile components of garlic may cause red blood cells and hemoglobin decreases, and may cause anemia, is not conducive to treatment of hepatitis.

Nonbacterial diarrhea should not eat: the occurrence of non-bacterial enteritis, diarrhea, should not be eaten raw garlic. Intestinal mucosa because of local inflammation of the intestinal wall itself vasodilation, redness, swelling, permeability, a large number of body tissues and proteins, potassium, sodium, calcium, chlorine, etc., and a liquid electrolyte into the intestine, large amounts of liquid stimulate the gut, making bowel movements speed up, thus abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms. If you eat raw garlic, spicy taste of garlic can irritate the intestines, intestinal mucosal congestion, edema, and promote leakage, making the disease worse. If you have diarrhea, consumption of garlic should be careful.

Eye disease should not eat: Chinese medicine believes that long-term consumption of large quantities of garlic would "hurt the liver damage eyes", therefore, should try to eat garlic eye patients, especially in poor health, qi and blood of patients should pay attention, or else a long time will vision loss, tinnitus, lightheadedness, memory loss and other phenomena. Some people suffering from myopia or other eye diseases, need to take traditional Chinese medicine, then do to avoid certain food, or else directly affect the efficacy. Eat a lot of garlic in the summer and autumn, the influence of the eye the most.

■ Tips: How to eat garlic addition to bad breath

garlic is best to eat raw, but for a lot of people after eating a mouthful of garlic smell headache. To reduce the resulting bad breath eat garlic, the following way.

1. To and protein rich food to eat together.

2. brush our teeth immediately after eating.

3. drink milk, coffee, tea or eat some fruit.

4. chewing tea.

5. Eat jujube remove bad breath.

6. remove bad breath with vinegar or wine.

7. Angelica chewable tablets. (In Wei)