{"id":2813,"date":"2007-02-27T16:45:41","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T16:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2007-02-27T16:45:41","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T16:45:41","slug":"garlic_does_not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2813","title":{"rendered":"Garlic Does Not Lower Cholesterol in Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2007\/02\/27\/MNG82OBOH11.DTL\">Carl Hall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Garlic may be good for a lot of things &#8212; spicing up your diet, for sure &#8212; but it seems to be no good at all at lowering your cholesterol.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nAfter conducting one of the most elaborate studies yet on garlic&#8217;s effect on cardiovascular health, scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine said Monday that they could find no benefit in terms of reduced levels of LDL cholesterol, the &#8220;bad&#8221; form linked to heart disease.<br \/><Br><br \/>\nChristopher Gardner, a Stanford assistant research professor and lead author of the six-month study, said he was disappointed by the results, describing himself as a garlic lover whose office is an hour&#8217;s drive from Gilroy, the generally acknowledged &#8220;garlic capital of the world.&#8221;<br \/><Br><br \/>\n&#8220;We really thought this was going to work,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I was going to get the key to the city of Gilroy. I was going to get &#8216;Dr. Garlic&#8217; license plates.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another balloon pops.  Perhaps the garlic farmers will need a subsidy of some sort to recover?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Hall: Garlic may be good for a lot of things &#8212; spicing up your diet, for sure &#8212; but it seems to be no good at all at lowering your cholesterol. After conducting one of the most elaborate studies yet on garlic&#8217;s effect on cardiovascular health, scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}