Garlic odor
The best way to keep friends from taking offense at your garlic laden breath is to invite them to your
garlic orgies. As far as I know there is no remedy for the odor that oozes out of your pores after a
meal that was heavy on the garlic. Some say that eating a bit of fresh parsley (I've been told that it's
the chlorophyll that does the job) or chewing on some cumin will help.
Three nickels will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat.
A very old New York saying
Eat Garlic - But Not Right Away!
If you eat garlic for medicinal purposes, wait at least 15 minutes between chopping (or crushing or
mincing) your garlic and cooking it in your favorite dish. Turns out a recent study by researchers John
Milner and Kun Song suggests that immediate heating of garlic, including microwaving, can destroy
much of its anti-cancer properties. However, after 15 minutes of exposure to air, the enzymes
released in crushed and chopped garlic produce various allyl sulfur compounds, reputed to be the
source of garlic's health giving properties.
Garlic as odor remover!?
Garlic has many wonderful properties, and according to researchers at Clemson University it can also
make chicken manure smell better! Scientists have been putting garlic powder in chicken feed, and
smelling the results. "It makes the poultry house smell like a pizzeria" claims Professor Glenn
Birrenkott. Clemson says that the garlic also gives the eggs a milder taste, probably due to a
reduction in sulfur content. One is tempted to wonder if putting garlic in pig feed might be worth a try.
More studies on the healthy qualities of garlic
Organic Gardening Magazine (610-967-5171) in its July/August, 1997 issue reported on yet another
study showing that eating garlic may soothe the body as well as the soul. Four institutions conducted
a study which reported that 41 men between the ages of 32 and 68 with moderately high cholesterol
levels (220 to 290) consumed either aged garlic extract or a placebo pill once a day for up to a half
year. The men who consumed the actual garlic had their total cholesterol fall off up to 7% and their
LDL levels fell by 4%. Their systolic blood pressure also declined on the order of 5%.
Sandvik H, Baerheim A. Does garlic protect against vampires? An experimental study. Tidsskr Nor
Laegeforen 1994; 114: 3583-6
Vampires are feared everywhere, but the Balkan region has been especially haunted. Garlic has been
regarded as an effective prophylactic against vampires. We wanted to explore this alleged effect
experimentally. Owing to the lack of vampires, we used leeches instead. In strictly standardized
research surroundings, the leeches were to attach themselves to either a hand smeared with garlic or
a clean hand. The garlic smeared hand was preferred in two out of three cases (95% confidence
interval 50.4% to 80.4%). When they preferred the garlic the leeches used only 14.9 seconds to
attach themselves, compared with 44.9 seconds when going to the non-garlic hand (p < 0.05). The
traditional belief that garlic has prophylactic properties is probably wrong. The reverse may in fact be
true. This study indicates that garlic possibly attracts vampires. Therefore, to avoid a Balkan-like
development in Norway, restrictions on the use of garlic should be considered.
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Garlic odor
The best way to keep friends from taking offense at your garlic laden breath is to invite them to your
garlic orgies. As far as I know there is no remedy for the odor that oozes out of your pores after a
meal that was heavy on the garlic. Some say that eating a bit of fresh parsley (I've been told that it's
the chlorophyll that does the job) or chewing on some cumin will help.
Three nickels will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat.
A very old New York saying
Eat Garlic - But Not Right Away!
If you eat garlic for medicinal purposes, wait at least 15 minutes between chopping (or crushing or
mincing) your garlic and cooking it in your favorite dish. Turns out a recent study by researchers John
Milner and Kun Song suggests that immediate heating of garlic, including microwaving, can destroy
much of its anti-cancer properties. However, after 15 minutes of exposure to air, the enzymes
released in crushed and chopped garlic produce various allyl sulfur compounds, reputed to be the
source of garlic's health giving properties.
Garlic as odor remover!?
Garlic has many wonderful properties, and according to researchers at Clemson University it can also
make chicken manure smell better! Scientists have been putting garlic powder in chicken feed, and
smelling the results. "It makes the poultry house smell like a pizzeria" claims Professor Glenn
Birrenkott. Clemson says that the garlic also gives the eggs a milder taste, probably due to a
reduction in sulfur content. One is tempted to wonder if putting garlic in pig feed might be worth a try.
More studies on the healthy qualities of garlic
Organic Gardening Magazine (610-967-5171) in its July/August, 1997 issue reported on yet another
study showing that eating garlic may soothe the body as well as the soul. Four institutions conducted
a study which reported that 41 men between the ages of 32 and 68 with moderately high cholesterol
levels (220 to 290) consumed either aged garlic extract or a placebo pill once a day for up to a half
year. The men who consumed the actual garlic had their total cholesterol fall off up to 7% and their
LDL levels fell by 4%. Their systolic blood pressure also declined on the order of 5%.
Sandvik H, Baerheim A. Does garlic protect against vampires? An experimental study. Tidsskr Nor
Laegeforen 1994; 114: 3583-6
Vampires are feared everywhere, but the Balkan region has been especially haunted. Garlic has been
regarded as an effective prophylactic against vampires. We wanted to explore this alleged effect
experimentally. Owing to the lack of vampires, we used leeches instead. In strictly standardized
research surroundings, the leeches were to attach themselves to either a hand smeared with garlic or
a clean hand. The garlic smeared hand was preferred in two out of three cases (95% confidence
interval 50.4% to 80.4%). When they preferred the garlic the leeches used only 14.9 seconds to
attach themselves, compared with 44.9 seconds when going to the non-garlic hand (p < 0.05). The
traditional belief that garlic has prophylactic properties is probably wrong. The reverse may in fact be
true. This study indicates that garlic possibly attracts vampires. Therefore, to avoid a Balkan-like
development in Norway, restrictions on the use of garlic should be considered.
more garlic lore
back
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