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Why is it that (in the Hare Krishna movement) you do not eat onions and
garlic?

After all they are vegetables, are they not? One can understand the
prohibition against meat-eating. But what is wrong with eating garlic and
onions? Surely there's no more violence committed when we eat an onion than
when we eat a potato.

Answer:

GARLIC IS TOXIC  - PROVEN MEDICALLY

Garlic - a Brain Poison? from GARLIC - TOXIC SHOCK! Reprinted from Nexus
Magazine, Feb/Mar 2001. Source: From a lecture by physicist Dr. Robert C
Beck, DSc, given at the Whole Life Expo, Seattle, WA, USA, in March 1996.

The reason garlic* is so toxic, is that the sulphone* hydroxyl* ion
penetrates the blood-brain barrier, just like DMSO [a sulfoxide*], and is a
specific poison for higher-life forms and brain cells. We discovered this,
much to our horror, when I (Bob Beck, DSc) was the world's largest
manufacturer of ethical EEG (electro-encephalography*] feedback equipment.

We'd have people come back from lunch that looked clinically dead on an
encephalograph, which we used to calibrate their progress. "Well, what
happened?" "Well, I went to an Italian restaurant and there was some garlic
in my salad dressing!" So we had them sign things that they wouldn't touch
garlic before classes or we were wasting their time, their money and my
time.

I guess some of you ... are pilots or have been in flight tests... I was in
flight test engineering in Doc Hallan's group in the 1950s. The flight
surgeon would come around every month and remind all of us: "Don't you dare
touch any garlic 72 hours before you fly one of our airplanes, because
it'll double or triple your reaction time. You're three times slower than
you would be if you'd not had a few drops of garlic."

Well, we didn't know why for 20 years later, until I owned the
Alpha-Metrics Corporation. We were building biofeedback equipment and found
out that garlic usually desynchronises your brain waves. So I funded a
study at Stanford and, sure enough, they found that it's a poison. You can
rub a clove of garlic on your foot - you can smell it shortly later on your
wrists. So it penetrates the body. This is why DMSO smells a lot like
garlic: that sulphone hydroxyl ion penetrates all the barriers including
the corpus callosum* in the brain.

Any of you who are organic gardeners know that if you don't want to use
DDT, garlic will kill anything in the way of insects. Now, most people have
heard most of their lives garlic is good for you, and we put those people
in the same class of ignorance as the mothers who at the turn of the
century would buy morphine sulphate in the drugstore and give it to their
babies to put 'em to sleep.

If you have any patients who have low-grade headaches or attention deficit
disorder [ADD], they can't quite focus on the computer in the afternoon,
just do an experiment - you owe it to yourselves. Take these people off
garlic and see how much better they get, very very shortly. And then let
them eat a little garlic after about three weeks.

They'll say "My God, I had no idea that this was the cause of our
problems." And this includes the de-skunked garlics, Kyolic, some of the
other products. Very unpopular, but I've got to tell you the truth. Garlic
can affect the mind and concentration. Do not eat it if performing
activities requiring concentration and mental acuity.  People who have an
angry temperament or reddish complexion should use garlic cautiously.