Eating garlic is nutritional and flavorful and it can also help you lose 20 lbs. Or, eat it to lose any amount of weight. Let me tell you why.
Garlic has been eaten for health reasons for over 4000 years. The ancient Chinese, Egyptians, and Greeks were aware of the health benefits they received from eating garlic and would eat this herb at nearly every meal. Garlic is known to help prevent heart disease, it lowers cholesterol and triglyceride levels, and helps to fight off cancer and infections.
In recent years, it has been found that eating garlic will also help you to lose weight. Garlic contains allicin and that’s the source of garlic’s strong smell. But, it’s also what helps make garlic a wonder food.
Allicin is not present in garlic in its natural state. It is formed only when the garlic is crushed and exposed to air. That’s why a whole bulb of garlic has almost no smell. But, crush that bulb of garlic and smell the difference.
Using garlic to help you lose those 20 lbs only works when it is eaten crushed and raw. Cooking garlic destroys the allicin. Now, eating cooked garlic is delicious and has many other health benefits, but much of its benefits towards weight loss are lost.
The allicin that crushed garlic contains helps you to lose weight in two ways. First, allicin helps your body to release unwanted fat from your body’s cell walls. And, secondly, allicin helps your body’s nervous system to release a hormone called adrenalin which increases your metabolism. An increase in your metabolic rate means more fat will be burned. That’s why many of the quick weightloss diets promote menus with crushed garlic in them.
Garlic crushed through a garlic press will have more allicin than garlic chopped with a knife. Raw, crushed garlic is delicious on soups, salads, dips, and marinades.
If you have a concern about you breath after you eat garlic, chew on fresh mint, parsley, lemon or orange peel, or fennel seeds. This will help.
Garlic is almost like magic. Eat more of it if you want to lose 20 lbs.





