Sea Vegetables: Also known as seaweed, a really lousy hit for such a great array of foods! Sea vegetables are truly medicine for modern people. A sustainable and abundant, nutrient dense food supply that grows around the world.
Why you want to eat more sea vegetables
There are a dozen commonly eaten sea vegetables that can be not only palatable, but quite tasty. When adding sea vegetables to the diet, remember that they vary greatly in nutrients. Here are just a few of the most noteworthy benefits:
· More minerals that any other food. Every known mineral that we need, sea vegetables can provide. With commercial food, minerals are in poor supply. Balance this with sea vegetables.
· Weight Management ~ The thyroid gland is under attack in modern life. More and more people have thyroid issues and sea vegetables are a tonic food for thyroid function. Increasing thyroid function can be beneficial for weight loss.
· Beautiful Skin ~ With internal moisturizing, improved detoxification, high concentration of skin friendly nutrients, sea vegetables are HOT in the natural beauty industry.
· Detox Radioactive Compounds ~ woah! Brown sea weed binds and expels radioactive isotopes from the thyroid gland. Detoxification is essential in the post-industrial age.
· Detox Heavy Metals ~ our bodies never had to deal with cadmium, mercury and lead in the way it does now. Sea Vegetables help the body efficiently detox these industrial waste products. (Wakame, Arame, Hijiki, Kombu)
· Optimal Health ~ “If you want higher health, you need sea vegetables,†Scott Olgren ~ author of The 28 Day Cleansing Program
Tips on sea vegetables:
- More is not necessarily better. You only need a tablespoon or so each day to get the benefits of this food. Too much and you might even tip the scales on the iodine levels
- Try adding in one new sea vegetable each season. In a few years, you will have a great reference point for how to consume them!
- Macrobiotic foods companies, like Eden Foods, are great sources of quality sea vegetables, as is Maine Sea Coast company.
- Rinsing sea vegetables mellows the flavor.
What to watch out for:
- A lot of sea vegetable products are imported from China. As with Goji berries or other Chinese herb and food products, make sure you buy from reputable distribution channels.
- Lots of sea vegetable salads in deli cases are died to be bright green. It is normal for sea vegetables to look brown though.
Where can I get them?
I order directly from Maine Coast Sea Vegetables and from Eden Foods. I love the Maine Coast Applewood Smoked Dulse, yum!
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