Word: garlic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government to engage in deficit spending; implementation would have been shrewdly delayed until 1997, when Bush and many current legislators would not have to deal with the resulting budgetary and legal chaos. Small wonder that Democratic Congressman Mike Synar ridiculed the proposal as "the constitutional equivalent of hanging garlic in the window to ward off vampires...
...best health news for foodies this year was fresh scientific evidence that what your mother said was true; veggies really are good for you. One study showed that eating garlic may help lower blood pressure. Other medical surveys suggested a relationship between specific foods and a reduced risk of certain diseases: broccoli and breast tumors, for example, or grapefruit and clogged arteries, soybeans and liver cancer...
...best health news for foodies this year was fresh scientific evidence that what your mother said was true; veggies really are good for you. One study showed that eating garlic may help lower blood pressure. Other medical surveys suggested a relationship between specific foods and a reduced risk of certain diseases: broccoli and breast tumors, for example, or grapefruit and clogged arteries, soybeans and liver cancer...
Take another look in the pantry: it might be a drugstore. Six of the latest hot health foods are common, garden-variety foodstuffs, from garlic to celery and -- sorry, George Bush -- broccoli, that show uncommon potential for preventing cancer, heart disease and other illnesses. Scientists are only beginning to appreciate the way that common plants store potent chemical compounds that may block the body's synthesis of carcinogens or decrease cholesterol levels in the blood. "We're finally catching up with what vegetarians and health-food nuts believed all along," says Jon Michnovicz, medical director of New York City...
...GARLIC. The "lowly stinking rose" may lower blood pressure slightly and help prevent blood clotting, like aspirin. A recent German study showed marked reduction in blood fats, including cholesterol, among people who consumed the equivalent of one clove of garlic a day. The active compounds are probably the same sulfur derivatives that give garlic its distinctive odor. Other studies suggest that sulfur compounds may suppress the development of stomach cancer in humans and breast cancer in laboratory animals. Garlic does not have to be eaten raw, but deep frying and high heat could destroy its active ingredients. If the idea...