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Health Related Articles
Seaweed - The Healthy Option
Jean Shaw© - All Rights reserved
www.anyoneforhealth.com
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“Modern science confirms seaweed as one of Nature’s all-round pharmaceutical miracles that can accomplish everything from warding off and treating several types of cancer, lowering cholesterol and blood pressure, thinning the blood, preventing ulcers , killing bacteria, even curing constipation” – Jean Carper – The Food Pharmacy
For the majority of people seaweed conjures up an image of a smelly, green or brown, unpalatable tough weed washed up on a shoreline somewhere. Alternatively, it could be that dried stuff you get in sushi bars or Japanese and Chinese restaurants. Very few people realise the health benefits of seaweed and just how versatile seaweed really is.
Described as “perfectly balanced natural food” certain seaweeds, like certain land plants have been used for centuries by different cultures for medicinal and nutritional purposes, fertilisers and even to awaken sexual desire.
It’s not just the Japanese who have appreciated the health benefits from daily consumption of seaweed either as there are reports of people living high in the Andes consuming it on a regular basis. Both cultures are renowned for their hardiness but just why is this natural vitamin supplement so good for us? The answer is the ocean.
For millions of years minerals and nutrients have been draining from the land into the sea and it is more or less a constant chemical medium. The ocean contains the same minerals and trace elements as human blood and these are integrated into the living tissue of seaweed. As the seaweed is organic (easily broken down) and the natural vitamins, foundation minerals and vital nutrients are in such an assimilable form, this wonderful sea vegetable is of huge nutritional benefit and really is a natural whole food vitamin supplement. For example, it has been estimated that certain seaweeds are up to 30 times higher in minerals than land food, which is affected by depleted nutrient levels in our soils.
Many people are understandably concerned about consuming produce from the oceans these days because of media reports of pollution, but this issue is widely misunderstood. Generally the ocean is a far less polluted growing medium than land soil especially farm soil because of the widespread use of pesticides, insecticides and fertilisers as well as airborne industrial pollutants.
Some seaweeds, particularly certain varieties of wrack have been the subject of scientific study over many years in connection with specific medical conditions where they have been found not only to have therapeutic value, but are a powerful nutritional component in a wide range of treatments.
“Seaweed is the most nutritious form of vegetation on this planet…It contains almost the whole alphabet of nutrients” – Leslie Kenton – The New Raw Energy
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For details on Seaweed natural health products see www.anyoneforhealth.com
Jean Shaw is the author of “I’m Not Naughty – I’m Autistic – Jodi’s Journey” and “Autism, Amalgam and Me – Jodi’s Journey Continues.” Details of her books and mercury poisoning helplines can be found at www.jeanshaw.com
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