Garlic protection

Ernst, E., Garlic How Garlic Protects Your Heart, Amberwood Publishing, London, 1996. 

Munday, J.S., Jamesm, K.A., Fray, L.M., Kirkwood, S.W., and Thompson, K.G. 1999. Daily supplementation with aged garlic extract, but not raw garlic, protects low density lipoprotein against in vitro oxidation. Atherosclerosis 143, 399-404. 

Sun X, Ku DD (2006) Allicin in garlic protects against coronary endothelial dysfunction and right heart hypertrophy in pulmonary hypertensive rats. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 291(5) H2431-H2438. doi 10.1152/ajpheart.00384.2006... 

Mincing, cooking and maturing expose meat products to oxidative stress for a long time so that antioxidants added for lipid protection are slowly destroyed on storage. Onion juice is a powerful antioxidant in meat products, more efficient than garlic juice. Lipid hydroperoxides are reduced to inactive hydroxyl derivatives by reaction with sulphur compounds present in those juices. 

Protective factors for atherosclerosis are fish oils, antioxidants, physical activity and garlic. These are discussed below. 

Garlic products three to five years no evidence on protection from heart disease some evidence for limited protection against laryngeal, gastric, colorectal, and endometrial cancers... 

The present results also point to differences between the mammary tumor model and the ACT model for evaluating the potential cancer protective effects of Se in broccoli. A previous study (17) showed that high-Se broccoli florets decreased the number of DMH-induced ACT. Similarly, in the present study high-Se broccoli sprouts decreased DMH-induced ACT, but low-Se broccoli sprouts alone did not have any effect (Table 3). In the mammary tumor model, however, broccoli alone, similar to garlic alone (3), reduced the number of tumors (Table 1). This contrasting effect could be the result of a difference between tumor and preneoplastic lesion models, a difference between carcinogens, or a difference between mammary and colonic tissues. 

Se-enriched broccoli was not more effective (Table 1) than enriched garlic (3) in reducing the number of tumors this Ending proves that the combination of sulforaphane, indole carbinol, and chlorophyll with Se did not provide additional protection against mammary tumors. (Adapted from Finley... 

Breithaupt-Grogler K, Ling M, Boudoulas H, Belz GG. Protective effects of chronic garlic intake on elastic properties of aorta in the elderly. Circulation 1997 96 2649-2655. 

Allium chinense Max. A. odorum L. A. sativum L. A. tuberosum Roxb. A. uliginosum G. Don Da Suan (Garlic) (bulb) Allicin, allistatin, glucominol, neo-allicin, steroidal saponins, polysaccharides, furostanol saponins, proto-isoerubosides, diallyl sulfide.33 49 438 490-510 Antibacterial, antimutagenic, anticarcinogenesis, carminative, antiarrhythmic, lower plasma cholesterol and low-density lipoproteins, prevent thrombosis, hypotensive and vessel protective effect. 

Allylic sulfides May stimulate production of protective enzymes Garlic, onions... 

Numagami, Y., Sato, S., and Ohnishi, S.T., Attenuation of rat ischemic brain damage by aged garlic extracts a possible protecting mechanism as antioxidants, Neurochem. Int., 29, 135-143, 1996. 

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