Andy wrote:
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> The trouble with garlic?
>
> The first time I roasted a whole head of garlic, I squeezed it out to make
> garlic bread that I consumed. Delicious as it was, it landed me in the
> hospital with pancreatitus hours later. I wasn't allowed to eat for a week.
> Almost died back in 2005.

That probably wasn't from the garlic. Garlic is believed to be effective
in *lessening* inflammation, which is what pancreatitis is.

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> The store bought jar of minced garlic in oil made me break out with acne
> almost instantly.

Could be the oil rather than the garlic.

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> I'm OK with the garlic powder or the dry minced garlic.

Not much of the essential oils left in those, plus they are heated to
some extent.

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> I've used garlic cloves sparingly since my hospital stay.
>
> You all are probably OK with 40 garlic clove chicken, etc., etc., right?

Why not? The garlic is thoroughly cooked.

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> A garlic overdose oozes out of my skin, not just as bad breath!
>
> And just how do you get rid of garlic breath anyway???

Eat garlic all the time. Eventually the body adjusts how it metabolises
the sulphur compounds that cause the 'smell'.

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