The good garlic

8220;Take two or three cloves of garlic, on an empty stomach in the morning,8221; runs many a Grandma8217;s advice. In may cause your boyfriend to avoid you thereafter, but research has proved that there is a scientific reason behind this advice.

Garlic 8211; Allium Satvium 8211; has been known to man for centuries. Egyptian sages, as far back as 1500 BC, have recorded 22 medicinal properties. In 1983 biochemist Sidney Belman found that rubbing garlic oil inhibits tumours in laboratory mice.

Garlic is supposed to prevent cancer of the stomach. Researchers guess that it is the potent organosulphur compounds in garlic which inhibit bacterial growth in the stomach. This lowers the risk of cancer since some bacteria convert food to nitrosamines which are carcinogenic. Garlic is also said to reduce risk of caner of the colon, rectum, oesophagus, skin and prostrate.