As many of my readers know I used to be very fat. The book got me on numerous T.V. shows, written about in many magazines and newspapers and led to my writing this column. Okay that's all for the infomercial. I killed my sweet tooth by eating raw onions with Gulden's spicy mustard on whole wheat bread. While I'm a great advocate of eating raw onions even if you eat them cooked they are good for you.
Onions also contain a substance that interferes with the formation of blood clots.
But there are more reasons to eat onions. It seems they help prevent diabetes, infections and cancer. Onions are also a good source of the sulfur compounds that stimulate the production of enzymes responsible for neutralizing free radical compounds linked to cancer. So let's add more onions to our menus. Right now I have onions baking in the oven along with potatoes, carrots, parsnips and buttercup squash.