What do you think abut this? https://www.isical.ac.in/~goutam.paul/onion.pdf
I always thought that garlic is holy grail in almost everything, but now I am worried if its even safe..
I’m pretty sure this paper is satire, because it certainly reads as such.
It starts with anecdotes and then launches into some common scientific fallacies. The statement that “garlic is similar to gunpowder” is not dissimilar to saying that “water (H2O) is similar to the dangerous poison hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)”. It then moves to argumentum ad populum, in other words the assertion that their claim is true simply because many people/cultures believe it.
It sounds as if a professor or teacher wrote this paper as an assignment to his students to identify common fallacies and pitfalls in popular science…
EDIT: and OP, if this is an assignment set by your teacher or professor, you should complete your homework by yourself! Critical thinking is an important skill that can’t be substituted by asking strangers on the internet.
Doesn’t Ayurvedic medicine say that garlic and onions promote ignorance and passion, and that’s why Ayurvedic food has no onions or garlic in it? Mind you, it’s not based on science at all, that’s just a thing people believe.
I wonder where the origin came from? Some people get headaches from raw onions and garlic and that isn’t a myth.
There is also some guy who says that cruciferous vegetables are toxic to humans and should be avoided at all costs. I don’t think science agrees with him either.
So garlic is amazing.
There are many articles nowadays of people dissenting against biological science, for example the carnivore movement of the last few years comes from the idea that all vegetables are toxic.
Surprisingly, this is true. But it’s actually a good thing. First, The toxicity in vegetables isn’t high enough to have a bad effect on you (unless you were to say eat kale nonstop from morning until evening). Second, the toxicity actually causes a semi-stress which forces your body to adopt certain counter measures which end up, overall, being beneficial to you.
An important part of nutrition actually has a lot to do with micro stresses from certain foods and your bodies subsequent positive response to the stresses (you could compare the cellular stress response to that of a muscular stress response when lifting weights).