HOW TO LOWER/FIGHT CHOLESTEROL

Garlic Supplements Fighting Infection and Cholesterol
Everyone has to have heard that garlic is very healthy for you by now. In spite of that, there are still sceptics, but that is usually because it is a problem to perceive a difference. Garlic is more preventative than curative.

You have to build up an amount of 'garlic' in your body before it can do you a great deal of help. Garlic will be far less effective if you try eating it after the event, because it takes so long to make up the levels you need, depending on how much you eat, of course.

Once you realize that, it becomes obvious that you ought to be eating garlic every day, not only when you are already sick. Some cultures are pleased to smell of garlic all day long, but others are not. For these people, there are garlic supplements and even de-odourized garlic supplements.

Garlic has been used as an antiseptic for centuries, if not longer, but contemporary studies have shown that it is also helpful in the battle against cholesterol - the bugbear of the Twenty-First Century, as populations all over the world, but especially in the West balloon into obesity.

If you are the type of person who would rather eat the real thing than a supplement, but are not keen on being known for your garlic smell, there are things that you can do to minimize the smell. Thais cook garlic very rapidly and it goes into each meal, but you would not know it.

Cooking it quickly appears to kill the smell on your breath. Chewing parsley or gargling with and then drinking lemon juice are methods of reducing the smell of garlic.

However, you could eat fresh garlic on the weekend but take supplements during the week, when you have to go to work. If you are searching for garlic supplements, you will come across dozens of different types. However, all you actually have to know is whether the pill is odourless or not and how much alicin is in it. Alicin is the active ingredient that you are interested in.

Cold-pressed garlic is said to be odourless, so you could look out for that on the label. Alicin is also occasionally coupled with other general system boosters or tonics like echinacea. You will have to carry out some research before you purchase, because 'experts' disagree on everything except that garlic is healthy for you.

Eating garlic on a day by day basis ought to make a difference to your cholesterol levels over time - a month or two -, but will also offer long-term assistance. If you are already being watched for cholesterol by your physician, tell him or her what you are doing and then you have a point of reference to see how effective garlic is in reducing cholesterol in your case

Garlic will probably never be sufficient on its own to protect you from high levels of cholesterol, but that would be expecting too much anyway. Rather, you ought to see garlic as another foot soldier in the battle.