Fresh garlic prevents lung cancer

If twice a week to eat garlic , the risk of lung cancer will be reduced by nearly half, proved the Chinese experts.

More precisely, the risk reduction was 44%, writes Meddaily referring to The Daily Mail. Garlic helps even smokers - the risk of falling by 30% in their case. Meanwhile, smoking is at least 80% of all cases of lung cancer . The survival rate is very low - less than one in every ten are diagnosed live longer than five years after its production. By the way, the University of South Australia found that garlic reduces the risk of cancer of the intestine by almost a third.

During the most recent research staff of the Center Disease Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Province compared 1424 patients with lung cancer and 4,500 healthy people. Revealed a definite positive effect of fresh garlic. Will it heat-treated garlic, scientists do not know.


But earlier it was shown that a key ingredient of garlic - allicin - is released, if a head of garlic crushed or ground. The compound inhibits inflammation and acts as an antioxidant by reducing the extent of damage of free radicals. Therefore, garlic is considered an excellent remedy for colds , hospital superbugs and even malaria. Hence, it can work as a preventive method against lung cancer.