Health and Nutrition Letter

Garlic Might Keep More Than Dracula at Bay
Evidence suggests modest benefits against cholesterol and blood clots.

October 2005

Abstract

A new report on the health benefits of garlic suggests there might be some advantages—besides taste—to eating “the stinking rose” that counterbalance its effects on the breath. The literature review, by Ellen Tattelman, MD, of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, was published in American Family Physician.

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