Email this item to:
Your name:
Your email address:
Message (optional):


Sulfenic Acid: New Study Confirms Garlic Is Good For You!

garlic health

For years scientists and natural health experts believed that garlic was a super-antioxidant that boosted your immune system and helped fight off high cholesterol and even cancer. However, gaining proof had been elusive, until recently when a new Queen's led research study was released that has validated the health benefits of consuming garlic.

What was particularly confusing was that garlic wasn't particularly high in your garden-variety antioxidants like Vitamin E or coenzyme Q10. This new Queen's study puts the focus on an organic compound in garlic called 'allicin' which gives garlic its flavour and scent.

"We didn't understand how garlic could contain such an efficient antioxidant, since it didn't have a substantial amount of the types of compounds usually responsible for high antioxidant activity in plants, such as the flavanoids found in green tea or grapes ... If allicin was indeed responsible for this activity in garlic, we wanted to find out how it worked." - Study Professor Derek Pratt
As the study reveals, it is not allicin per se that makes garlic such a great trapper of free radicals, it's the process of decomposition of allicin as it interacts with sulfenic acid. This decomposition process unleashes a super-antioxidant that magically (or scientifically rather) does an unbelievable job of ridding your body of free radicals. Just how good a job does the sulfenic acid / allicin combination work?
"No one has ever seen compounds, natural or synthetic, react this quickly as antioxidants."
So the bottom line is this, eat it, swallow it, drink it, garlic is darn good for your body!

image eye of einstein

( Add your comments )


Recent Entries:
· Market Study: Top 10 Kids Snacks
· Sulfenic Acid: New Study Confirms Garlic Is Good For You!
· Take The Green Smoothie Challenge




[ READER COMMENTS ]

Add your comments...

We kindly ask that you keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Abusive or inappropriate comments or comments that are specifically promotional in nature may be removed.





Would you like us to remember your info for next time?



BREAKING NATURAL LIVING NEWS...
New Health Website Lists The Benefits Of Organic Food - I-Newswire.com (press release)

Community Calendar - Pocono Record

Naturopathic Doctor Reveals Secrets to Stop Acid Reflux in One Week! - Online PR News (press release)

Magazine lauds Eugene for its 'green' capitalism - The Register-Guard

Groundhouse Sustainable Home Combines Natural Living with Zero Carbon ... - Earthtimes

SEARCH


HEALTH NEWS...
Controversy reignited over benefits of male circumcision

Lots of screen time linked to focus problems in kids

Opinion: Canada can help to intensify war against killer diseases

Canadian health care falls short of what we deserve

The Truth about BC Health Spending, Made Easy