Eating twice a week raw garlic, you can significantly reduce the risk of lung cancer in smokers, say Chinese scientists.

Lung cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors. Only in 2008, 1.4 million people died from this disease. According to Chinese researchers from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Jiangsu Province, the risk of lung cancer can be significantly reduced if regularly - at least twice a week - there is raw garlic. The study is published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research.

Garlic is a long-known and widespread medicinal plant. In Chinese folk medicine it was used 4 thousand years ago. Garlic is useful in hypertension, high cholesterol and diabetes. According to preliminary data, it helps with malignant tumors of the colon, prostate, esophagus, larynx, oral cavity, ovaries and kidneys. Therapeutic properties of organosulfur compounds of garlic, dissolved in volatile oils. Chinese researchers explain that a man chewing garlic breathes volatile substances that can affect lung cancer cells, according to an online edition for girls and women aged 14 to 35. Pannochka. net From 2003 to 2010, Chinese researchers collected data on the diet, lifestyle and habits of residents of the two coastal provinces of Jiangsu Province. In these districts, a rather low standard of living and a high incidence of lung cancer. Scientists interviewed 1424 patients with lung cancer and 4,543 healthy people over 18 years of age, the men in this sample were approximately three times more than women.

It turned out that people who include garlic in their diet at least twice a week, get lung cancer about 30% less often than those who do not eat it.

These data relate mainly to smokers. On the incidence of people who have never smoked, garlic is almost not affected. Scientists say that the effect of garlic depends on the dose: the more it is eaten, the more it protects the consumer. In the study, the amount of garlic ranged from 8.4 to 33.4 g per week.

Smoking is a major risk factor for lung cancer. Among cancer patients, participants in the study, nine patients out of ten for a long time smoked.

Undoubtedly, the best method of preventing lung cancer is not to touch tobacco. However, not everything is so simple, there are other circumstances that contribute to the development of the disease, over which a person is not always powerful.

Among them, a hereditary predisposition, ionizing radiation, air pollution with asbestos or silicon dust (when the dwelling is adjacent to a factory), frequent consumption of fried foods, and cooking on hot vegetable oil is one of the main risk factors for Chinese women.

Researchers note that in these cases garlic also helps a little.

By the way, there were not so many garlic lovers in the sample.

More than half of the participants do not eat it at all, and more often than twice a week this aromatic seasoning is consumed by only a tenth of the respondents.

The authors of the work note that the connection between garlic and the reduction of the incidence of lung cancer should be studied and proved more convincingly. Obviously, this is what they will do.. In addition, the researchers found two more useful habits that reduce the risk of developing a malignant lung tumor: exercise and green tea. Perhaps they are not as effective as garlic, but not so smelly.

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