Superfood News: Sea Vegetables
By Seth Braun
Filed Under Green Living |
Superfood
A superfood is anything that delivers the power of several foods in one package, such as goji berries, blueberries, bee pollen, maca and cacao. They contain significantly higher levels of vitamins, minerals and other beneficial substances than regular healthy food. Superfoods are much better at filling in the gaps in our diet than vitamin supplements. Whether it is for aiding detoxification, replenishing reserves, improving immune system, increasing sex drive, or generating energy, superfoods make up for the lack of quality, nutrients, and vitality in the commercial food supply.
Sea Vegetables
Also known as seaweed (a really lousy name for such a great array of foods), sea vegetables are medicine for modern people. They are a nutrient-dense, sustainable and abundant food supply that grows around the world. There are a dozen commonly eaten sea vegetables that are not only palatable, but quite tasty. When adding sea vegetables to the diet, remember that they vary greatly in nutrients. Arame, hijiki, dulse, wakame, sea palm, nori, kombu and have taken kelp and bladderwrack make great supplements to any diet.
Benefits
- Meet Mineral Needs
Sea vegetables provide us with every known necessary mineral. With commercial food, minerals are in poor supply. Balance this in your diet 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 huge in the natural beauty industry. - Remove Radioactive Compounds
Brown seaweed binds and expels radioactive isotopes from the thyroid gland. Detoxification is essential in the post-industrial age. - Remove 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)
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 To Buy
Order from Maine Coast Sea Vegetables and Eden Foods. The Maine Coast Applewood Smoked Dulse is the best!
Sea veggies can also be found affodably at your local health food store.
Posted on July 25, 2008 |
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I love’d learning about seaweed’s ability to cleanse the thyroid of radioactive compounds!
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