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Eat Garlic and Skip the Flu !

Friday, February 23rd, 2007 by Tim Subscribe To Our Feed

Since it is cold and flu season, I thought another short post about avoiding the flu was in order. Anything to avoid the flu right. Well I saw this little snippet in First Magazine. Thought it was very interesting.

“A clove of crushed garlic is a top source of immune-boosting allicin. (In fact, the only way to activate the antioxidant is by chopping raw garlic.) Allicin increases the body’s production of white blood cells to fight off bacterial and viral infections. In one British study, participants who had a daily dose of allicin were 57 percent less likely to catch a cold.”
Eat Garlic!

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