The Disease-Protective Properties of Garlic
This continuing education course assesses current research findings on garlic’s health benefits, summarizes the mechanisms of action of the various compounds found in garlic, and evaluates the safest and most effective way to reap the benefits of this bulb.
Learning Objectives
After completing this continuing education course, nutrition professionals should be better able to:
- Evaluate garlic’s mechanism of action and the impact of different processing and preparation methods on garlic’s efficacy.
- Distinguish the effects of garlic from food vs supplement form.
- Discuss the potential benefits of garlic, including immune-modulating, hypotensive, cholesterol-lowering, neuroprotective, anticancer, and antiosteoporotic effects.
- Analyze at least two reasons why research on the health benefits of garlic shows contradictory results.
Additional Information
Elizabeth Streit, MS, RDN, LD, is the founder of the food blog and business It’s a Veg World After All and the author of three books: The Complete Guide to Anti-Inflammatory Foods, The Complete Guide to Natural Vitamins, and the Vegetable Cookbook for Vegetarians: 200 Recipes from Artichokes to Zucchini.
Disclosures:
Elizabeth Streit, MS, RDN, LD, faculty for this educational activity, has stock in Vanguard Health Care Fund and SPDR S&P Health Care. All relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.
The planners for this activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
An "ineligible company" includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).
RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner’s discretion.
Available Credit
- 2.00 CDR