What Health And Nutritional Benefits Can Result From Regular Seaweed Consumption?
From my perspective, sea vegetables are an essential component of all therapeutic diets. Seaweeds, eaten regularly, are the best natural food sources of biomolecular dietary iodine. Seaweeds do not seem to accumulate fat-soluble pesticides and industrial wastes such as PCP, PCB and dioxin, unlike marine animals; the latter are also good sources of dietary iodine. Land-based vascular plant iodine content tends to be low. No land plants are reliable sources of dietary iodine. Food crops grown on mineral-depleted soils from poor agricultural practice usually contain inadequate amounts of dietary iodine. Iodine is the essential element in most thyroid hormones, natural and synthetic. Iodine is also essential for the maintenance of normal mammary gland architecture and salivary gland health. A note: What exactly does “eaten regularly” imply? To me, it means eating 5-15 grams of dried seaweed(s) at least twice a week. An ounce (29 grams) a week is slightly more than three pounds a year. My p
