the garlic thread

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First...a public apology to Vince for reading his message in the wrong way.

I should have known from previous messages that he wouldn't be intending it

in the way that I perceived it. I also should know that when something hits

me the wrong way it's a good idea to wait before responding and come back to

it later.

Second, thank you to all who did respond to it. My general feeling about

that link was that it wasn't too legit. I would trust the words of someone I

know, like Schulze before the words of someone I know nothing about.

(well, I don't know him personally, but I'm familiar with his work.) And

yes, common sense comes into play along with each person making an individual

choice about what is good for his/her own body based on personal experience.

I did ask the person for further information on how he discovered that garlic

was hindering his immune system. With all due respect (he's not on this

list), his response was that he's kept records of his health and what he eats

for several years now and he noted that 5 out of the last 6 colds he had

started after he ate garlic. And that now that he's stopped eating garlic he

only gets about one cold a year. He's evidently using garlic as the

determining factor - not any other lifestyle changes he may have made during

that time.

He also says that another reason you shouldn't eat garlic is because anything

that isn't delicious in it's natural form isn't considered food. Well - I

don't think olives are delicious.... or bell peppers or prunes or cherries or

asparagus....... but that doesn't mean that they aren't food. I don't think

basing the definition of " food " on taste is sensible at all. I respect

people's right to make their own choices about what they wish to consume` but

this guy and I are on totally different planes in that regard. So I take

that into consideration with anything he might share. Like with any list -

take what you like and leave the rest.

Now about that garlic - I appreciate all the feedback, and I especially think

the post that someone sent (I'm sorry I don't' remember who) about " bread -

the other side of the story " was great. You could fill in the blank with

just about anything. In fact...you could make an argument for BREATHING

being bad for your health. (After all, if a person stopped breathing when

they were young, they would never have heart disease, cancer, kidney failure,

arthritis, dementia....you name it! So, every day that we breathe is one

day closer to the end of our lives as well.

I do appreciate this forum for airing things out. I hadn't given a lot of

validity to the link when it was given to me, but it still helps to hear what

other people think.

Someone on another list asked the question of whether too much of any

particular enzyme could be bad for you, because they had eaten a lot of

papaya and found that the enzymes were eating away at their duodenum. Well,

yeah, too much of anything is...too much. And if something is eating away

at you, by all means, stop consuming it! But just because something (like

garlic) gets a bad report from someone else, doesn't mean it's bad for the

whole human race.

I think the bottom line is information, moderation and consideration of what

one's own body is saying.

That's my rambling .02 for the day!

rachel~