The many benefits of eating garlic.

Garlic has been a natural remedy for generations.
If you remember how your grandma kept telling you to eat lots of garlic to stay healthy, she was correct. It has potent medicinal properties and can combat your sickness including common cold. Garlic reduces blood pressure and lowers cholesterol levels which may lower risks of heart disease. Eating garlic can help detoxify heavy metals in the body. Daily dose of garlic have beneficial effects on osteoarthritis and bone health in menopausal women. Garlic contains antioxidants that may help prevent Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and cancer. It also contains ample amounts of Vitamin C and Vitamin B6, Manganese, Selenium and fiber. Decent amounts of calcium, copper, potassium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1 and trace amounts of various other nutrients. In fact, it contains a little bit of almost everything we need to live longer.
What you may not know is that the majority of garlic you buy at your grocery store or receive in your meal in a restaurant is imported from China. Chinese garlic is filled with bleach, toxins and forbidden pesticides to boost their productions. Among other chemicals they use phorate and parathion which can have devastating effects on your health.
Here are few tips how to recognize garlic coming from China:
• Chinese garlic is lighter and more bulbous then regular garlic
• Chinese farmers often remove the roots and stem to reduce weight and save on shipping. So, if these are not removed, the garlic you are buying should be safe.
• Use local farmer markets or buy organic garlic