| When was the last time you had seaweed in your | | | | (which saved thousands of people from starvation |
| diet? Actually when was the last time you thought | | | | during the potato famine of 19th century Ireland), |
| of seaweed as a food? Don't worry, seaweed | | | | Kelp, Kombu, Laver, Nori, Sloke, and Wakame. Put |
| usually isn't the first thing that pops into peoples | | | | them together and you have a low calorie |
| heads when they think about cooking dinner or | | | | sea-vegetable salad! Seaweed can also be used in |
| even as a healthy part of a diet. It's also not | | | | seasonings, soups, teas, and assorted food |
| something you can just go out and find on every | | | | recipes. Using the name seaweed would not be |
| shelf in every grocery store either. It may be the | | | | the correct term for a plant with such a high |
| opposite. Finding seaweed is tough to do since it is | | | | value. The more appropriate terms would be sea |
| so scarce. And because it is so hard to find it's no | | | | plants, sea vegetables, marine flora, or ocean. |
| wonder our kitchen cupboards are missing this | | | | There have even been studies done by scientists |
| ingredient. Plus there aren't many cookbooks | | | | studying the medicinal properties in ocean herbs. |
| crawling with recipes made of seaweed. Unless | | | | Limu Maui is an exotic name, which translated |
| you eat sushi, seaweed may sound extremely | | | | means brown seaweed. Brown seaweed contains |
| strange being used as a key ingredient. You would | | | | a mineral named fucodian that Japanese |
| find it shocking to know that according to | | | | researches are claiming to be comparable to a |
| statistics the people who live in Japan are healthier | | | | mothers' milk when it comes to the human |
| and actually live longer than the people in the | | | | immune system. PubMed is a service of the |
| United States. Seaweed is a staple food of the | | | | National Library of Medicine and the National |
| island country of Japan. This is the key factor in | | | | Institutes of Health and is a good place to look-up |
| their health and their long-levity. Seaweed contains | | | | studies on fucodian, laminarin (also an |
| higher contents of fiber than vegetables, more | | | | immune-booster found in brown seaweed), or |
| protein than meat, and more calcium than milk. | | | | anything else. It is available at either pubmed.gov |
| Seaweed is actually a good ingredient to put into | | | | or pubmed.org on the world wide web. If you are |
| everyone's diet. If people in the United States | | | | the kind of person who does not enjoy |
| would replace the fat of fast food burgers with | | | | vegetables then sea herbs are not right for you |
| the fiber of seaweed our health would improve | | | | and you don't have to eat them. You can still take |
| tremendously. It can be simply done by putting a | | | | a supplement that come in tablets, capsules, or |
| little seaweed extract into the burgers and the | | | | liquid extracts form. When done this way you also |
| burgers wouldn't even taste that different. The | | | | receive smaller algae forms of seaweed like |
| food the we eat now a days is over-processed | | | | chlorella or spirulina. Plus beta-carotene, vitamin C, |
| and grown in depleted soil. However, if you add | | | | potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, and iodine |
| seaweed to your diet this would not be true. Due | | | | are some others things you would be adding in by |
| to the ocean floor is rich in nutrient material and | | | | taking these supplements. Again, studies on these |
| seaweed is a concentrated source of minerals. If | | | | can be found at PubMed. Seaweed is a |
| you want to ensure you are receiving the | | | | wholesome food that adds variety to your diet |
| necessary quantities and varieties of minerals and | | | | and is good for your health. |
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