20 CANCER-FIGHTING FOODS

LEAF GREENS: Deep green leafy vegetables are packed with lutein, vitamin A and folate nutrients that may prevent colon and ovarian cancer.
· Spinach
· Kale
· Collard green
· Arugula
· Dandelion green

CURRY: Yellow curry contains cur-cumin, a pungent spice that may help prevent melanoma and other types of cancer cells from proliferating.

CRUCIFEROUS VEGGIES: These contain photochemical that may cut the risk of stomach, breast and skin cancers.
· Broccoli
· Broccoli sprouts
· Cabbage
· Bok choy
· Watercress
· Swiss chard

BERRIES: These fruits contain antioxidants such as polyphenols, which counteract and repair cell damage.
· Blueberries
· Blackberries
· Raspberries
· Strawberries
· Cranberries
· Red grapes

TOMATOES: Studies suggest that having a tomato-rich diet may help lower the risk of developing both lung and stomach cancer.

GARLIC: A SEASONING WITH STRONG MEDICINAL POWER & IMPROVED INFERTILITY IN MEN

Just a whiff of the fleshy bulb on your breath is enough to send anyone around you scampering for cover. That powerful characteristic odour comes from the plant Orientals like to call the stinking rose which is known better by its other common name-garlic.

Traditionally, garlic is used to season foods. But many now eat the raw bulb, rub it on their skins and prepare medicine with it. Notwithstanding its strong repelling odour, garlic has become a household medicinal plant in some part of the world.

However, As advances in the field of organic chemistry continued, evidence began to emerge that one major therapeutic properties of garlic could be traced to ALLICIN, which is the component in crushed garlic that gives it its characteristic stink.

According to a pediatric surgeon from the Tygerberg Hospital in South Africa, Dr. Daniel Sidler, the last century had witnessed more than 2002 scientific articles bordering on the medicial qualities of garlic.

These scientific investigators reported that garlic possessed cardiovascular benefits (by decreasing fats, improving the cholesterol balance ands also by inhibiting blood clothing); exhibited anti-hypertensive, anti-oxidizing and anti-cancer effects, mothers-to-be can boost the birth weight of small babies by taking garlic to help increase the blood flow to the uterus. It also discovered that garlic can cut the risk of preeclaspsia, where increased blood pressure threatens pregnant women and unborn babies. Similar studies suggested that it could lower blood sugar and prevent arterosclerosis as well.

But the greatest discoveries of garlic to man is that it have some benefits for a man’s love life. It has been revealed that it can boost performance in the bedroom by improving his staying power. It helps by widening arteries and improving blood flow to the groin. It also knows to boost creation of nitric oxide, a chemical involved in triggering erection.

Men that have fertility problem has benefited from these plant for they have been able to pregnant their wife.

But if trials on garlic prove successful especially with a number of pathogens showing resistance to normal antibiotics, Sidler said the funds that would have been wasted on developing stronger and more expensive antibiotics could be channeled into other uses.

FACTS ABOUT GARLIC *Cardiovascular benefit *Anti-hypertensive *An anti-oxidant *Anti-cancer *Antidiabetic *Prevents arteriosclerosis *Anti-bacteria *Anti-fungal *Anti-viral *Analgesic *Worm expeller *Anti-inflammatory *Anti-blood clotting *Expectorant *Solve infertility problem in men

MYTHS ABOUT GARLIC *Strong smell has ability to ward off evil spirits. *Many indigenous healers believe the herb to be a remedy for all illnesses