Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Be a survivor

frontiers of science

If you were on a desert isle, what herb would you take along?

When I called Dr. James Duke the other day to ask him a question about a journal article on garlic and cancer, he asked me to hold on, since he had a pot of garlic soup on the oven and didn't want it to burn!

"If I were stranded on a desert isle, I'd rather have garlic than almost any other herb," Duke said. "It'll boost your immune system and fight the nasties better than anything I can think of."

And there are plenty of bugs and diseases around, some of them deadly serious. In fact, since 1990, 15 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed. According to the National Cancer …

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