Recent medical studies have proved this practice, and have found out that
sea vegetables have important antibacterial effects, antivirial and anticancerous.
In laboratory experiments in Japan, kombu, wakame, nori, hiziki and other
common sea vegetables have shown to reduce cholesterol levels in the blood,
avoided high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis and improved the metabolism
by reducing the accumulation of fats.
It has also been discovered that different varieties of seaweed's contain
anticoagulants. In Japan areas where the incidence of longevity is longer
is closely related to their consumption of seaweed.
Several medical studies and case-history reports indicate that sea vegetables
help discharge radioactive elements and other heavy particles from the body.
For instance, studies beginning in 1964 at McGill University in Canada showed
that a substance in kelp and other common sea vegetables could reduce by 50
to 80% the amount of radioactive strontium absorbed through the intestine.
At St. Luke´s Hospital in Nagasaki, a group of macrobiotic doctors and
patients who had survived the atomic bombing on August 9, 1945 subsequently
protected themselves against potentially lethal doses of radiation on a diet
of brown rice, miso soup, sea vegetables, and sea salt. Nuclear energy and
nuclear weapons testing pose a serious health hazard today to almost everyone.
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Seaweeds also supply:
Iodine – which is needed for thyroid function and which, in turn, affects body metabolism – is another important mineral found in sea vegetables. As an aside, the need for iodine is a compelling reason for using sea salt in cooking, instead of regular refined salt which has all the iodine and other minerals removed.
And sea salt fortified with iodine is not the answer. The quality of iodine used in fortification is not the same and you still miss out on other important minerals.
Seaweeds can contain up to 20,000 per cent more iodine compared with land vegetables.
population studies indicate that people who eat sea vegetables regularly tend to enjoy excellent health. The Hawaiians, for example, have low rates of heart disease even though they tend to be stocky and highly overweight. They attribute this to their regular consumption of seaweeds.
Seaweeds are also rich in antioxidants that protect us from degenerative diseases such cancer as well as slow down the aging process.
Plus, they are noted for their ability to bind with toxic heavy metals and radioactive pollutants – such as mercury, lead, cadmium and radioactive strontium, which is in fact one of the most hazardous pollutants present in the world today due to nuclear power plants, testing of nuclear weapons, etc.
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