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Seaweed Nutrition

Did you know that our ancestors
fed on a super diet of natural fat burners and anti-aging fare?


If you’ve seen movies in the prehistoric genre, you’ve probably noticed that the women were lean and the men beefy. Yes, our ancestors were fit and robust because they were hunters and gatherers. And they ate a natural diet that ensured them of dramatic health benefits.

Before they learned to plant and harvest wheat, our Paleolithic forefathers gathered vegetables, herbs, roots, seeds, and nuts. They also hunted for birds, fish, and wild boar.

Their diet was rich in antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals that protected from the aging and the many lifestyle degenerative diseases that plague us today.


What’s more, our coastal ancestors had a health bonus.


In addition to an ancient cuisine of herbs, roots, seeds, nuts, game, and fish, they enriched themselves with a super food that gave them an “edge” over the rest of their brothers.


Wild seaweed.
Earth’s first fat-burner and anti-ageing food!



Our coastal forefathers scoured the shorelines of the ancient seas and gathered what turned out to be their deepest secret to their super health and long life – ocean vegetables or seaweed!

For hundreds of years, seaweeds have been one of the staple foods of our great ancestors who lived by the sea. From the Mediterranean coasts, the Nordic countries, Iceland, Alaska, the Pacific coast of Hawaii and the beaches of Okinawa…they fed mostly on these sea vegetables.

In fact, ocean vegetables were so prized during those times that at one point, sea vegetable gardens were maintained in Hawaii specifically for royalty! And the first ever-recorded proof that seaweed is a perfect food source dates back to 300 B.C. in China!



Earth’s natural fat-burning and anti-aging secret is as old as the sea.


Time-tested. Age-old. With history on its side, seaweed today is turning out to be increasingly popular due to its multiple health benefits. Not only as bearers of complete nourishment but as natural weight loss and anti-aging “agents” as well.

Gillian McKeith, author of Living Food for Health, says sea vegetables contain key minerals not found anywhere else in plant form. Ms. Gillian also mentions that the body more easily absorbs the protein found in seaweed than meat protein, making it one of nature’s best anti-ageing foods on earth!

Sea vegetables alkalinize the body, making it less acidic. And the more alkaline the body, the younger it is!

Better than land vegetables
Ocean vegetables are one of Nature’s richest sources of vegetable protein. They provide a full-spectrum concentration of beta-carotene, chlorophyll, enzymes, amino acids, and fiber. Ounce for ounce, along with herbs, they are higher in vitamins and minerals than any other food.

Teeming with antioxidants and phytochemical, seaweeds keep the body cells alive – rejuvenating, renewing and repairing…literally, fire engines that are perpetually in motion! The result? Healthy cells that fuel our body to perform at optimum levels everyday. A powerful, yet natural fat-burner!

The most potent way to feed your body…everyday
Ocean vegetables are ideal ingredients in everyday meals. They have this amazing ability to combine with other vegetables, grains and legumes to provide better utilization of protein and all other nutrients needed by the body to stay healthy. Ocean vegetables underline the difference between basic nutrition and super nutrition.

Walk into a grocery or health food store today and get ready to be besieged with food labels that read “fat-burning”, ”anti-aging”, and “vitamin and mineral”. Out there are countless products that promise health, beauty, and longevity.

Simplify your life. Head for the seaweed section in your health store and check out our seaweed recipes. Here are the more common varieties.

    Nori is a great multi-tasker: it has twice as much Vitamin C as oranges, packed with beta-carotene like carrots, rich in calcium for your bones, iodine and iron for thyroid, and are great in making sushi.

    Arame is laden with macro minerals like magnesium, potassium, calcium, sodium and iodine.

    Kelp is high in iodine, which must be present for proper glandular function and metabolism. It also contains phosphorus and calcium, as well as magnesium and potassium. Kelp is a source of vitamins A, B1, B2, C, D and E, plus amino acids. Because kelp is the saltiest of seaweed, it makes a popular salt substitute. However, it’s been tested to be low in sodium.

    Wakame is iron-rich and 10 times more calcium than a glass of milk!



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