Superfoods - Garlic

I am not sure why they call the superfoods...as when they describe what the super-foods do is only a normal thing for health ... i thought that calling them 'food' would be enough...anyway...
I have here a little booklet  (Esme Floyd,1) and there are some interesting facts from the superfoods chapter:

Garlic 
what:

1. reduces the risk of stomach and colon can 
2. helps lowering blood cholesterol
3. helps reducing blood pressure

how much
    only 2-3 cloves a day....not so much, huh?
She's not the only one recommending the daily garlic.
Weil (2) praises as well the natural antibiotic properties of garlic, and the effect of blood pressure lowering due to allicin.
 Holford (3) recommends as well garlic as a strong anti-bacterial and lowering of cholesterol. Garlic thins the blood preventing the blood clots and thus the clogging of arteries...how ? ' garlic does this by stopping platelets in the blood from sticking to each other'...a chemical called 'ajoene' seems to be responsible for this effect.
Now, whether it's allicin or ajoene..who cares...the garlic must be in your daily diet.

But the real catch here is this: studies recommend the real stuff, not the supplements/extracts/ pills. 3 raw cloves  a day seems to reduce clotting with 20%...
In Romania we say that garlic is great for health, but for sure a killer for romance...
well, there's some hope there: you can eat your 3 daily cloves in your cooked food...as the effect would be the same, but for sure the 'sweet aroma' wont drive your lover away.


(1) Esme Floyd - '1001 healthy eating miracles'
(2) Patrick Holford - 'Say no heart disease'
(3) Andrew Weil - 'Eating well for optimum health'