i have been using garlic daily through my life and believe this is why i am still healthy and young with a smooth skin as i am at age 53.

I also had a neighbour who used to be rid of throat infections within a couple of days thanks to chewing raw garlic cloves - but you could smell her coming a mile off!

What about garlic supplements - does anyone know whether they are just as good for health benefits (excluding the vitamin C bit of course)? And does cooked garlic provide less benefits than raw?

Raw is almost always best because all the enzymes, nutrients and phytochemicals haven't been cooked off.  However, even cooked, garlic is REALLY good for you...and a natural antibiotic.

I have been using garlic oil for years now and I swear by it. I saute anything I can in it. Veggies are the best.

I should eat garlic more... good information to know.

My grandma put fresh garlic and onion on just about everything she ate, and she led a very healthy, active life until age 82. She ate raw parsley to combat the garlic and onion breath.

I'm adding the ingredients for the 4 minute spicy shrimp to my shopping list.  I plan to divide the recipe and make just the one serving, since I'm cooking for one.

And it keeps those pesky vampires away!

I can't eat garlic like I used to. I find it gives me stomachaches now, even in little quantities, so I've stopped using it in my cooking. :(

There is a Natural Supplement Called Garlic Heart. Its a food supplement. It works really gr8. It works very good.

Avinash 

I've also heard that garlic is great preventing cold sores, especially in you eat it daily and in raw form.

I guess I'm more interested in the culinary aspect.  There are so many dishes that are enhanced by garlic. 

If Garlic gives you heartburn, try taking 1 tbls of vinegar before you eat anything with alot of garlic and also 1 tbls at night before you go to bed.  I have little to no heartburn now and I am acid reducer free.  I use to take acid reducers everyday and I had to keep upping the dose.  Eventually even the high dose was not doing me any good.  I couldn't sleep at night and my diet was restricted to very blan stuff and still I was in pain.  I am back to cooking garlic and onion in everything.  Pulling processed foods out of my diet has also helped with my stomach problems.  I cook from scratch, and most everything I use is tasty, spicy, and enjoyable.

oops, I should have been more specific.  It is apple cider vinegar that you want to take.  I take it undiluted!  I use to take it every night, I only take it now when I notice that my stomach is acting up.  I might have to take a dose about once or twice a month now.

I use garlic in almost all my cooked meals.

I tend to use not one, not two, not tree cloves, but a 1 whole chopped garlic  per dish - it has a strong presence, but it does not overrule the other flavours.

I have on the other hand noticed that when pressed, the garlic tend to be too overruling and that it makes you smell of it the next day.

hey, just wanted to share with you all that garlic is good for gas!!, all you do is put alot of the garlic skin to boil in plenty of water, add alot a little salt. Stomache Gas gone.

*****add alot of water and a little bit of salt.

Garlic is good but what about the odor it emits?