GMO-Free Brands

These brands, at the time of writing, source their ingredients from GMO-free supplies. If you’re concerned about the very real threat that genetically modified organisms pose to our food supply and ultimate health, please purchase from these companies and contact them to let them know that you support and value their decision to use non-GMO soy, corn, canola and other ingredients. Please enjoy this GMO-free food list and share it.

• Arrowhead Mills: GMO-free providers of baking mixes and flours found in both natural health food stores and regular supermarkets.
• Eden Foods: GMO-free providers of canned goods, noodles, tamari, miso, vinegar and Asian foodstuffs.
• Natural Choice Foods: GMO-free roviders of frozen dessert products.
• Purity Foods: GMO-free makers of spelt-based noodles, snacks and other goodies.
• Rapunzel: My all-time favorite chocolate company. They also sell speciality oils.
• Spectrum Oils: GMO-free manufacturer of speciality oils, cooking oils, salad oils and natural shortening.
• Genisoy: Uses only certified GMO-free soybeans for their many soy products.
• Earth’s Best: Baby food manufacturer uses non-GMO ingredients.
• Healthy Times: Baby food manufacturer uses non-gmo ingredients.
• Bob’s Red Mill: GMO-free provider of baking mixes and specialty flours.
• Pamela’s Products: Provider of luscious gluten-free baking mixes sources non-GMO ingredients.
• Whole Foods Store Brands: Whole foods has made the commitment to sourcing its ingredients from GMO-free sources.
• Cascadian Farms: Provider of frozen entrees, juices, frozen vegetables and fruit, yogurt and other foods.
• Imagine Foods: GMO-free provider of soy and rice milk as well as broth and other foods.
• Muir Glen: Source of canned goods and vegetable juice uses gmo-free foods.
• Thai Kitchen: Source for coconut milks and Asian ingredients sources gmo-free ingredients.
• Amy’s Kitchen: GMO-free source of canned soups, chilies, boxed and frozen meals.
• Nature’s Path: Manufacturer of cereals and snack bars made with ingredients sourced gmo-free.
• Annie’s Naturals: Manufacturer of BBQ sauce, salad dressings and other condiments sourced from gmo-free ingredients.
• San J: GMO-free manufacturer of soy sauce, shoyu and tamari.
• Tradition Miso: Manufacturer of miso pastes that are made from GMO-free ingredients.
• Barbara’s Bakery: Manufacturer of cookies sources from gmo-free ingredients.
• Lundberg Family Farms: GMO-free provider of rice and wild rice foods including raw rice, soups and convenience foods.
• Walkers: Provider of the best shortbread cookies ever as well as other sweet treats.
• Fantastic Foods: Provider of hummus, falafel, risotto couscous, soup and other mixes with gmo-free ingredients.
• Vitasoy: Manufacturer of soy-based foods sourced from gmo-free ingredients.
• Clif: Manufacturer of energy bars sourced from gmo-free foods.
• Kettle Chips: GMO-free manufacturer of potato and tortilla chips.
• Que Pasa: Manufacturer of tortilla chips and other Mexican foods sourced from non-gmo ingredients.
• Garden of Eatin: Manufacturer of chips, salsas and other snack foods.
• French Meadow Bakery: Manufacturer of bread and baked goods using non-gmo ingredients.
• White Wave: Manufacturer of soy products including tofu and tempeh using gmo-free soy.
• Bearitos: Manufacturer of snack foods and dips using gmo-free foods.
• Chaffin Family Orchards: Is committed to GMO-free foods and sells an assortment of goods including olive oil.
• Cultures for Health: All starters and products sold at Cultures for Health are GMO-free.
• Grindstone Bakery: GMO-free provider of wheat- and gluten-free bread.
• Pure Indian Foods: GMO-free provider of grass-fed ghee.
• To Your Health: Provider of gmo-free sprouted breads and sprouted flours.
• US Wellness Meats: Provider of pasture- and grass-fed meats free of GMO supplemental feed.
• Zukay: Provider of live cultured condiments and salsa free from GMO.
• Wisconsin Healthy Grown Potatoes: GMO-free potatoes.

This list is not actively maintained or updated. Please do not contact me and ask if any particular food is GMO-free, call the company and inquire. If they can’t guarantee it’s GMO-free or give you the runaround about how GMOs aren’t bad, then it probably is genetically modified.

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Gluttony

BIBLE:

Proverbs 23:2

And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

Prov 23: 19-21

19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. 20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags

Philippians 3:19 – Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

1 Corinthians 10:31 – Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 – What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

SOP:

“The health reform, I was shown, is a part of the third angel's message, and is just as closely connected with it as are the arm and hand with the human body. I saw that we as a people must make an advance move in this great work. Ministers and people must act in concert. God's people are not prepared for the loud cry of the third angel. They have a work to do for themselves which they should not leave for God to do for them...gluttony is the prevailing sin of this age. Lustful appetite makes slaves of men and women, and beclouds their intellects and stupefies their moral sensibilities to such a degree that the sacred, elevated truths of God's word are not appreciated...”  {CD 32.2}

“In order to be fitted for translation...the people of God...should ever have the appetite in subjection to the moral and intellectual organs. The body should be servant to the mind, and not the mind to the body.”  {CD 33.1}

“As our first parents lost Eden through the indulgence of appetite, our only hope of regaining Eden is through the firm denial of appetite and passion... The controlling power of appetite will prove the ruin of thousands, when, if they had conquered on this point, then they would have had the moral power to gain the victory of over every other temptation of Satan. But those who are slaves to appetite will fail in perfecting Christian character...”  --T., V. III, p. 491. {HL 74.5}

“Ignorance is no excuse now for the transgression of law... All are bound by the most sacred obligations to God to heed the sound philosophy and genuine experience which he is not giving them in reference to health reform. He designs that the great subject of health reform shall be agitated and the public mind deeply stirred to investigate; for it is impossible for men and women, with all their sinful, health-destroying, brain-enervating habits, to discern sacred truth, through which they are to be sanctified, refined, elevated, and made fit for the society of heavenly angels in the kingdom of glory...”  {CD 70.2}

“In the judgment we shall see how seriously God regards the violation of the laws of health.”  {CD 40. 1}

“Many have done the body much injury by a disregard of the laws of life, and they may never recover from the effects of their neglect; but EVEN NOW THEY MAY REPENT AND BE CONVERTED. Man has tried to be wiser than God. He has become a law unto himself. God calls upon us to give attention to His requirements, no longer to dishonor Him by dwarfing the physical, mental, and spiritual capabilities...”  (CD 40.1)

Thanksgiving is almost entirely perverted. Instead of being a day of solemn gladness and gratitude to God, it has become a day of jollification, self-indulgence, and GLUTTONY. Self interposes for attention, for gratification, for indulgence. This is a thanksgiving and oblation made to self to the forgetfulness of God and all his benefits to us. Let nothing interpose to detract glory from God.  {RH, November 18, 1884 par. 9}

“Fashionable visiting is made an occasion of gluttony. Hurtful foods and drinks are partaken of in such measure as greatly to tax the organs of digestion. The vital forces are called into unnecessary action in the disposal of it, which produces exhaustion, and greatly disturbs the circulation of the blood; and as a result, want of vital energy is felt throughout the system. The blessings which might result from social visiting are often lost, for the reason that your entertainer, instead of being profited by your conversation, is toiling over the cook-stove, preparing a variety of dishes for you to feast upon. Christian men and women should never permit their influence to countenance such a course by eating of the dainties thus prepared. Let them understand that your object in visiting them is, not to indulge the appetite, but that your associating together, and interchange of thoughts and feelings, might be a mutual blessing. The conversation should be of that elevated, ennobling character that may afterward be called to remembrance with feelings of the highest pleasure.”  {RH, June 13, 1899 par. 2}

Professed Christians generally take the lead in these fashionable gatherings. Large sums of money are sacrificed to the gods of fashion and appetite, in preparing feasts of health-destroying dainties to tempt the appetite, that through this channel something may be raised for religious purposes. Thus ministers and professed Christians have acted their part and exerted their influence, by precept and example, in indulging intemperance in eating, and in leading the people to health-destroying gluttony. Instead of appealing to man's reason, to his benevolence, his humanity, his nobler faculties, the most successful appeal that can be made is to the appetite.  {RH, June 6, 1899 par. 10}

The gratification of the appetite will induce men to give means when otherwise they would do nothing. What a sad picture for Christians! With such sacrifice is God well pleased? How much more acceptable to him was the widow's mite. Such as follow her example from the heart, will have well done. To have the blessing of Heaven attend the sacrifice thus made, can make the simplest offering of the highest value.  {2SM 413.3}

Many who discard flesh meats and other gross and injurious articles think that because their food is simple and wholesome they may indulge appetite without restraint, and they eat to excess, sometimes to gluttony. This is an error. The digestive organs should not be burdened with a quantity or quality of food which it will tax the system to appropriate.  {CD 133.3}

Custom has decreed that the food should be placed upon the tables in courses. Not knowing what is coming next, one may eat a sufficiency of food which perhaps is not the best suited to him. When the last course is brought on, he often ventures to overstep the bounds, and take the tempting dessert, which, however, proves anything but good for him. If all the food intended for a meal is placed on the table at the beginning, one has opportunity to make the best choice.  {CD 134.1}

Sometimes the result of overeating is felt at once. In other cases there is no sensation of pain; but the digestive organs lose their vital force, and the foundation of physical strength is undermined.  {CD 134.2}

The surplus food burdens the system, and produces morbid, feverish conditions. It calls an undue amount of blood to the stomach, causing the limbs and extremities to chill quickly. It lays a heavy tax on the digestive organs, and when these organs have accomplished their task, there is a feeling of faintness or languor. Some who are continually overeating call this all-gone feeling hunger; but it is caused by the overworked condition of the digestive organs. At times there is numbness of the brain, with disinclination to mental or physical effort.  {CD 134.3}

“These unpleasant symptoms are felt because nature has accomplished her work at an unnecessary outlay of vital force, and is thoroughly exhausted. The stomach is saying, "Give me rest." But with many the faintness is interpreted as a demand for more food; so instead of giving the stomach rest, another burden it placed upon it. As a consequence the digestive organs are often worn out when they should be capable of doing good work.” {CD 134.4}

Jesus, seated on the Mount of Olives, gave instruction to His disciples concerning the signs which should precede His coming: "As the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." The same sins that brought judgments upon the world in the days of Noah, exist in our day. Men and women now carry their eating and drinking so far that it ends in gluttony and drunkenness. This prevailing sin, the indulgence of perverted appetite, inflamed the passions of men in the days of Noah, and led to widespread corruption. Violence and sin reached to heaven. This moral pollution was finally swept from the earth by means of the flood. The same sins of gluttony and drunkenness benumbed the moral sensibilities of the inhabitants of Sodom, so that crime seemed to be the delight of the men and women of that wicked city. Christ thus warns the world: "Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot: they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed."  {CD 145.3}

“Christ has here left us a most important lesson. He would lay before us the danger of making our eating and drinking paramount. He presents the result of unrestrained indulgence of appetite. The moral powers are enfeebled, so that sin does not appear sinful. Crime is lightly regarded, and passion controls the mind, until good principles and impulses are rooted out, and God is blasphemed. All this is the result of eating and drinking to excess. This is the very condition of things which Christ declares will exist at His second coming.”  {CD 146.1}

“The Saviour presents to us something higher to toil for than merely what we shall eat and drink, and wherewithal we shall be clothed. Eating, drinking, and dressing are carried to such excess that they become crimes. They are among the marked sins of the last days, and constitute a sign of Christ's soon coming. Time, money, and strength, which belong to the Lord, but which He has entrusted to us, are wasted in superfluities of dress and luxuries for the perverted appetite, which lessen vitality, and bring suffering and decay. It is impossible to present our bodies a living sacrifice to God when we continually fill them with corruption and disease by our own sinful indulgence.’  {CD 146.2}

“Gluttony and intemperance lie at the foundation of the great moral depravity in our world. Satan is aware of this and he is constantly tempting men and women to indulge the taste at the expense of health and even life itself. Eating, drinking, and dressing are made the aim of life with the world. Just such a state of things existed before the Flood. And this state of dissipation is one of the marked evidences of the soon close of this earth's history.”  --Letter 34, 1875.  {LDE 22.2}

John separated himself from friends, and from the luxuries of life. The simplicity of his dress, a garment woven of camel's hair, was a standing rebuke to the extravagance and display of the Jewish priests, and of the people generally. His diet, purely vegetable, of locusts and wild honey, was a rebuke to the indulgence of appetite, and the gluttony that everywhere prevailed. The prophet Malachi declares, "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful of the Lord; and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers." Here the prophet describes the character of the work. Those who are to prepare the way for the second coming of Christ, are represented by faithful Elijah, as John came in the spirit of Elijah to prepare the way for Christ's first advent. The great subject of reform is to be agitated, and the public mind is to be stirred.  

Temperance in all things is to be connected with the message, to turn the people of God from their idolatry, their GLUTTONY, and their extravagance in dress and other things.  {TSDF 190.8}

Is it because there is not power in the lessons of Christ upon benevolence, and in His example, and the grace of God upon the heart, to lead men to glorify God with their substance, that such a course must be resorted to in order to sustain the church? The injury sustained to the physical, mental, and moral health in these scenes of amusement and gluttony is not small. And the day of final reckoning will show souls lost through the influence of these scenes of gaiety and folly.”  {Con 70.2}

“The word of God places the sin of gluttony in the same catalogue with drunkenness. So offensive was this sin in the sight of God that He gave directions to Moses that a child who would not be restrained on the point of appetite, but would gorge himself with anything his taste might crave, should be brought by his parents before the rulers of Israel, and should be stoned to death. The condition of the glutton was considered hopeless. He would be of no use to others, and was a curse to himself. No dependence could be placed upon him in anything. His influence would be ever contaminating others, and the world would be better without such a character; for his terrible defects would be perpetuated. None who have a sense of their accountability to God will allow the animal propensities to control reason. Those who do this are not Christians, whoever they may be, and however exalted their profession. The injunction of Christ is, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." He here shows us that we may be as perfect in our sphere as God is in His sphere.  {CD 133.2}

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MEDICAL SCIENCE

New research from Mount Sinai School of Medicine sheds light on how overeating can cause a malfunction in brain insulin signaling, and lead to obesity and diabetes. Christoph Buettner, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease) and his research team found that overeating impairs the ability of brain insulin to suppress the breakdown of fat in tissue.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121017153911.htm?fbclid=IwAR15PZkB77yiBHXts5iwujTrzCSqHZZ7dICJFZLNKtqSYSZKgRihj4O57p8

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SO, WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR BODY WHEN YOU OVEREAT?

• Overeating causes the stomach to expand beyond its normal size to adjust to the large amount of food. The expanded stomach pushes against other organs, making you uncomfortable. This discomfort can take the form of feeling tired, sluggish or drowsy. Your clothes also may feel tight, too. 
• Eating too much food requires your organs to work harder. They secrete extra hormones and enzymes to break the food down. To break down food, the stomach produces hydrochloric acid. If you overeat, this acid may back up into the esophagus resulting in heartburn. Consuming too much food that is high in fat, like pizza and cheeseburgers, may make you more susceptible to heartburn.
• Your stomach may also produce gas, leaving you with an uncomfortable full feeling.
• Your metabolism may speed up as it tries to burn off those extra calories. You may experience a temporary feeling of being hot, sweaty or even dizzy.

WHAT ARE THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF OVEREATING?

• When you eat, your body uses some of the calories you consume for energy. The rest are stored as fat. Consuming more calories than you burn may cause you to become overweight or obese. This increases your risk for cancer and other chronic health problems.
• Overeating -- especially unhealthy foods -- can take its toll on your digestive system. Digestive enzymes are only available in limited quantity, so the larger the amount of food you eat, the longer it takes to digest. If you overeat frequently, over time, this slowed digestive process means the food you eat will remain in the stomach for a longer period of time and be more likely to turn into fat.
• Overeating can even impact your sleep. Your circadian clock, which controls your sleep cycles, causes your sleep and hunger hormone levels to rise and fall throughout the day. Overeating can upset this rhythm, making it hard for you to sleep through the night.

WHAT ARE SOME WAYS TO STOP OVEREATING?

PRAYER

• Learn serving sizes
• Eat sensibly throughout the day. Pay attention to your portion sizes.
• Avoid processed foods which can be easily overeaten.
• Fill up on fresh fruits and vegetables. They provide a lot of fiber and will keep you full between meals and decrease the need to snack.
• Eat from a salad plate instead of a dinner plate. This will help you control your portion size.
• Avoid distractions when you eat, such as watching TV, using the computer or other electronic devices. Focusing on the meal itself will allow you to be more aware of when you’re full.
• Eat slowly and put your fork down between bites. This mindful eating habit will slow you down and make it easier to realize when you’re full.
• Plan your meals ahead.
• Keep a food journal to help you notice any positive or negative habits.

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https://www.mdanderson.org/publications/focused-on-health/What-happens-when-you-overeat.h23Z1592202.html?fbclid=IwAR29yZwkslrLMWGHLvvjEe3P_QqWemOda9lWMh2Y5S12yyiumItBq7M2QYw

Ginger Water

How to Make:

2 cups water

12-15 pieces of thinly sliced ginger

Pour water in a pot. Place ginger in it and bring to a boil. Let the mixture simmer on low heat for 15 minutes. Let cool, strain, and drink.

1. Ginger water is a powerful antioxidant. Ginger is rich in antioxidants, which are very beneficial for fighting free radicals. These unstable molecules can cause serious damage to healthy cells and lead to serious health problems, including cancer.

2. Strong anti-inflammatory effects. According to an article published in the Journal of Medicinal Food, this incredible root contains strong anti-inflammatory properties. For that reason, ginger water can significantly reduce inflammation, join swelling and pain, especially in conditions like osteoarthritis and rheumatism.

3. Ginger water can regulate cholesterol levels. Ginger is very powerful at reducing high cholesterol levels, which can lead to illnesses related to obesity such as heart disease and some types of cancer. This incredible water will considerably reduce cholesterol by reducing serum and hepatic levels of cholesterol. Plus, ginger water can effectively reduce blood pressure and dilute the blood.

4. Ginger water can protect against cancer. Another advantage of ginger water is its power to prevent and inhibit the development of cancer. An article published in the British Journal of Nutrition confirms that ginger contains powerful anti-inflammatory properties and antioxidants that can reverse or even prevent certain cancers.

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Ginger/Garlic Tea

Ginger/Garlic Tea is excellent for so many things. 

  1. Weight loss

  2. Water weight

  3. Inflammation/Swelling

  4. Cleans out the arteries/ helps remove plaque

  5. Helps lower blood sugar

  6. Helps lower cholesterol levels

  7. Helps lower blood pressure

  8. Helps with digestive problems

  9. Helps rid the body of toxins

10. Helps prevent and decrease cancer

HOW TO MAKE THE TEA:

1. Get a 32 oz. Mason Jar

2. In a sauce pot, put in 36 oz. of filtered water + 4 inches of ginger root thinly sliced (1/8 to 1/4” thick). Do not peel, only wash the peel, as this has lots of healthful properties in it. Turn the flame on high.

3. Next peel and slice 4 good sized fresh garlic cloves (don't use the already peeled garlic and not the whole bulb, but the cloves) and add to the pot.

4. When water comes to a rapid boil, turn flame low, cover with lid and simmer x 15 minutes.

5. When time is up, let cool to warm, strain into 32 oz. Mason Jar and add couple of teaspoons of honey (optional) with fresh lemon juice. (Also, optional)

6. Make this every day for at least 30 days.

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Garlic and Cancer

One vegetable in particular---garlic---contains substances that are especially powerful weapons against cancer, says the American Institute for Cancer Research.

Cell culture studies have shown that garlic can help cancer cells die off, reports the American Cancer Society. The National Cancer Institute also says that garlic can induce the death of cancer cells and that garlic can reduce the rate at which cancer cells proliferate, thereby slowing the progression of cancer in the body. In laboratory studies, garlic has killed leukemia cells, and in animal studies, garlic has killed cancer cells in the lungs, breasts, stomach, esophagus, and colon, according to the American Institute for Cancer Research.

Dr. Sujatha Sundaram, a researcher at Pennsylvania State University, found that it caused human bowel cancer tumour cells to shrink and die when transplanted into mice.

Dr. Sundaram was also responsible for finding another compound found in garlic that slowed the growth of breast cancer in rats.

Suggestion: Use Raw Garlic in your salads.

 

Raw Garlic: It is very well known that garlic contains all the elements except Vitamin D. It is also known that garlic essence warms the body and promotes better circulation of the blood .... Allicin, an oily substance contained in garlic, diluted as much as 200 times can kill typhoid germs. Its indeed Natural antibiotic!

 

 

Garlic Poultice

One of the Amazing natural remedy when someone in family is sick is garlic! Garlic is known to have strong antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal properties…and there are no known side effects (other than smelling like garlic!) The most used garlic remedy in our household is a garlic poultice. It’s super easy to make and very effective! We use it on everyone (babies and adults) and it has helped to reduce fevers and to get rid of coughs & congestion. You can use garlic poultices on yourself (like if having flu-like symptoms) and it will make a huge difference!

HERE’S HOW TO MAKE ONE:

First, get a few paper towels or a cheesecloth and lay it on the counter.

Second, crush or mince a few cloves of garlic into the middle of the paper towel or cheesecloth.

Third, fold the paper towel or cheesecloth to cover the garlic area. You can even staple it so it won’t fall out, but you don’t have to do that.

Fourth, get the paper towel or cheesecloth wet with hot water (but NOT boiling).

Lastly, put the wet garlic poultice on whatever area is bothering you. For example, if you have a cough/congestion then you would put it on your chest. You can also put it on the bottoms of your feet if the smell bothers you. Just make sure you don’t leave it on too long (more than around 90 seconds) because garlic can eventually cause burns. To avoid burning add some Olive oil or Castor Oil.

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Garlic

Garlic is one of the most diverse ingredients in the culinary world. Garlic is featured in many types of cuisine, from Chinese to Italian to Indian. There are more than 600 varieties of garlic, which can be categorized into 17 subgroups. Garlic tastes great and is great for your health. Garlic was used for healing by the Egyptians and was cherished by the Romans.

Garlic is a way to add flavor to food without adding calories or fat. One clove of garlic has only 4 calories. It's also very low in saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium. Garlic is a good source of calcium, phosphorus and selenium, Vitamin C, Vitamin B-6 and manganese.

Garlic helps reduce inflammation in the body and lowers blood pressure. It's also loaded with omega 3 and 6 fatty acids, is a natural blood thinner and has a dilating effect on blood vessels.

Garlic has the ability to activate liver enzymes that helps your body flush out toxins. Garlic also holds high amounts of allicin and selenium, two natural compounds that aid in liver cleansing.

Take whole bulbs of garlic and bake them until they soften like butter. It is delicious on whole grain bread. Add fresh garlic to stews and bean dishes.

While it has experienced overwhelming popularity in kitchens throughout the world, garlic bulb extracts may also help calm the stomach, improve circulation, and support healthy cardiovascular function. In fact, more than 250 publications have shown that garlic supports and strengthens the cardiovascular system.

A flavorful shield against infection, colds, and heart disease, this herb is well worth its lingering aroma (reason why when using uncooked garlic for health benefits to only use a clove you just cut, crushed, diced etc. & not use older garlic or jar minced garlic, or garlic powder etc.)

A piece of garlic with its mesmerizing aroma and the enticing flavor has very impressive health benefits too. It’s all because of a sulphur component that garlic contains called allicin which is a very powerful antibiotic and an extra effective agent to increase the immunity in the human body.

When a garlic clove is cut, the exposure to air releases 200 compounds with myriad medicinal abilities. The compound, allicin, is responsible for garlic’s legendary antibacterial properties. Allicin also keeps fungus and yeast infections in check and significantly increases immunity to the common cold. More important, the stinking rose reduces risk for atherosclerosis, the cause of most heart attacks and strokes, and evidence suggests that it may impede hypertension and cancer. Garlic contains high levels of selenium, which has anticancer efficacy, and components that form glutathione, the most powerful antioxidant the body manufactures, which thwarts cancer and diabetes. (How to save some of the health benefits of garlic during cooking, but you still only use a garlic clove).

CHOOSE IT & USE IT

Use garlic liberally, aiming to consume several cloves a day. Excessive heat destroys allicin, but letting freshly chopped garlic sit for 10 minutes before cooking helps retain allicin’s healing powers. To eat a lot at once, slice the top off of a head of garlic and set it aside for 20 minutes. Then roast it for 30 minutes in a 350° oven, and spread the softened cloves on whole-wheat bread.

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT GARLIC:

• April 19th is National Garlic Day.
• Garlic has been used to prevent tick bites.
• The Spanish have long used garlic as a preservative.
• Hippocrates, Aristotle and Pliny cited numerous therapeutic uses for garlic.
• Research has proven that garlic can suppress the growth of unhealthy cells.
• Builders of the ancient pyramids were said to eat garlic daily for enhanced endurance and strength.
• Garlic provides sulfur compounds that are beneficial to the circulatory system and help maintain healthy cholesterol levels.
• Roman emperors couldn’t eat enough garlic, as it was considered an antidote to poisons which were very popular in certain political circles of the time.
• Garlic is regarded as one of the most effective remedies to maintain a normal blood pressure. It also calms the pulse, supports normal heart rhythm, and relieves symptoms such as: dizziness, shortness of breath, and chest pain.
• Recently, researchers have published summaries of some of the positive data on garlic. They found that garlic is able to stimulate T-lymphocyte and macrophage action, promote interleukin-1 levels, and support natural killer cells. Strong activity of these key cells promotes healthy immune system function, and strengthens the body’s defenses.

ODORLESS GARLIC CAN HELP:

• Support healthy blood pressure & cholesterol levels
• Fight infections
• Maintain a healthy body weight
• Purify the blood
• Fight various illnesses
• Boost energy levels
• Regulate and improve intestinal health
• Fight and expel parasites and worms
• Maintain a healthy blood sugar level
• Reduce sensitivity to allergens and strengthen the body’s defenses against allergies
• Boost the immune system by supporting the body’s “natural killer” cells.

AMAZING FACTS

• Garlic is considered both a vegetable and an herb and is a member of the lily family.
• Garlic has been used medicinally for thousands of years since ancient Greek and Roman times.
• Garlic contains 17 amino acids. Amino acids are essential to nearly every bodily function, and make up 75% of the human body. Every chemical reaction that takes place in your body depends on amino acids and the proteins that they build.
• Fresh garlic is an excellent source of allicin, a compound that causes blood vessels to open up so they can carry greater amounts of blood and oxygen to the heart.
• There are over 300 varieties of garlic grown worldwide. One of the most common varieties is American garlic, with white, papery skin and strong flavor. Italian and Mexican garlic have a pinkish-purple skins and slightly milder-flavored varieties.
• Compounds found in garlic also help to prevent platelet clumping. In this way, garlic acts as a natural blood thinner. This is why garlic compounds should be used with caution in people who are taking prescription blood thinners or aspirin.

LET’S LOOK AT THE ADVANTAGES OF GARLIC:

*GARLIC SHEDS CHOLESTEROL FROM YOUR BODY:

Studies around the world says that Dietary garlic in reasonable doses may reduce the high levels of “bad cholesterol” from human body.

* GARLIC IS AN APHRODISIAC:

Generally a mouthful of fresh garlic might not sound like the best start to a romantic evening, but garlic had a reputation as anaphrodisiac (the food of love). This is connected with its classification as a "hot" herb. Tibetan monks were forbidden from entering the monasteries if they had eaten garlic. It stirs up passions due to its ability to increase the circulation.

* GARLIC IS AN ANTIOXIDANT AND POWERFUL ANTIBIOTIC:

Garlic is probably nature's most potent food. It is one of the reasons people who eat the Mediterranean diet live such long healthy lives. A literature search on garlic and its antioxidant potential churned up a surprisingly large amount of data, some of it good, some bad and some of its definitely ugly. Various preparations of garlic, mainly aged garlic extract (AGE), have been shown to have promising antioxidant potential.

So, readers, make your lives extraordinary with slight changes in your diet. Add garlic and feel the change. Be healthy.

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Got info from other sources...some from here:

http://www.vegetariantimes.com/article/healing-foods-garlic-2/

http://www.myhealthtips.in/2013/05/the-healthy-miracles-of-garlic.html