It may not be good for your breath, but garlic could be good for your health. Folklore tells us that garlic wards off vampires.
Practical experience indicates that garlic can prevent good-night kisses.
Earlier research has shown that garlic also may help fight heart disease. Now researchers in North Carolina say garlic could help prevent some forms of cancer. They found that people who ate the most cooked garlic had the lowest risk of stomach and colorectal cancer. The average garlic consumption of the study subjects was about a clove of garlic a day. Eating a lot of garlic could cut the risk of stomach cancer in half, according to the study results.