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Garlic Does More Than Scare Away Vampires
I love garlic. I can't think of any savory meal where I don't use it, and I also take garlic supplements. It's something my doctor recommended because she believes it helps regulate digestion and ward off colds.
Does Eating Garlic Keep Away Mosquitoes?
"If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've never been in bed with a mosquito."
The buzzing of a mosquito can interfere with your sleep and the bites can ruin camping trips and barbecues. If you avoid chemicals found in DEET or other bug sprays, you may be looking for a more natural way to repel skeeters.
Learn to Love: Garlic Scapes
If you're a big garlic fan, then you're going to love cooking with garlic scapes. They're the long, thin, loopy green stems of the plant that shoot up above the garlic bulb.
If left to grow, bulbils — which kind of look like flowers — will form, which can be planted to grow more garlic.
Seven Habits of Women Who Don't Get Sick
Nothing is worse than getting a cold or the flu. Sometimes it seems unavoidable, but CNN recently reported on seven habits of women who rarely get sick. I've highlighted some key points in this slideshow, so see for yourself what you may want to do, or pat yourself on the back for those things that you already do.
How to Get the Most Out of Your Garlic
We all know that garlic is chock full of health benefits, but don't chop it though. Oh no, to reap the benefits of garlic you need to crush it. It seems that crushing it conserves its healthy anti-clotting compounds.
Garlic: Does it Repel Mosquitoes
Darn those little buggers! I went to a BBQ the other night and was getting eaten alive by pesky mosquitoes. Someone at the party said, "Just eat garlic and they won't come near you."
Healthy Dose Link Time!!!!!!
Complete Running has a great idea: the US government should provide financial incentive (a tax write off) for being physically fit. Fitness Fixation tells you to show your strength. I couldn't agree more with her advice.Herbs in a Tube - Don't Even Bother
Let me give you some friendly advice. When you're cooking with a recipe that calls for fresh oregano and you go to the store and all they have is oregano in a tube, just forget it. Skip the oregano.
Garlic Found Powerless Against High Levels of Cholesterol
Garlic was supposed to be cholesterol's pungent adversary, but it looks as if the herb is powerless against the fatty, artery clogging substance. For folks with moderate to high cholesterol levels adding raw garlic or garlic supplements to their diet has no significant effect on lowering LDL (bad) cholesterol concentrations or in triglyceride levels.
Earlier studies on garlic had mixed results, but researchers remained hopeful.
How To Cook with Garlic To Reap All Its Goodness
Garlic is so very good for you, but it needs to be prepared a special way if you are to reap all its healthful benefits.
Web MD is reporting that when you are cooking garlic it needs to be crushed in order to conserve its healthy anti-clotting compounds. Seems that most studies on garlic have been performed on raw, but the majority of folks cook it.
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