Seaweed could make junk food healthier - yeah, right

TC · medicine forum Guru Joined: 02 May 2005 Posts: 1814

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Seaweed could make junk food healthier
09:04am 27th September 2005

Burgers could soon be packed with fibre

Takeaway lovers rejoice! Obesity caused by too much junk food could be
a thing of the past.
According to British scientists, fast food high in fat and calories
could be made healthier by adding extracts from exotic seaweed.

The seaweed extract, called alginate, could be used to increase the
fibre content of pies, burgers, cakes and other high fat foods.

They believe the seaweed will be a valuable weapon in the international
battle against obesity, diabetes, heart problems and diseases such as
bowel cancer.

Seafood alternative is high in fibre

The research has been published in the academic journal, Critical
Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition.

It found that alginate strengthens the mucus lining the gut wall, can
inhibit digestion and can slow the uptake of nutrients in the body.

Alginate, which is high in fibre, is already in widespread use by the
food industry as a gelling agent and to thicken the frothy head of
premium lagers.

The seaweed is processed in the laboratory to produce alginate - a
tasteless and odourless off-white coloured powder - that can then be
added to food to enhance fibre content.

Seaweed burgers

Professor Jeff Pearson, a member of the research team, said: "We
believe it's hard to change people's habits and that the most practical
solution is to improve the food they do eat.

"With a burger, for example, you would simply remove some of the fat
and replace it with the seaweed extract, which is an entirely natural
product from a sustainable resource.

"You'd have a healthier burger and it's unlikely to taste any
different.

"This compound can also be added to any number of foods, such as
synthetic creams and yoghurts.

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A perfect example of flawed allopathic logic that is foisted on the
un-educated masses.

1) there is something wrong with our diet

2) we've never eaten seaweed in this manner

3) if we eat this seaweed it will improve our health

but the problem is,

1) we are not unhealthy because we did not eat this seaweed. we've
never eaten this seaweed

2) it is supposed to be healthy because it does not contain supposed
unhealthy substances that we've eaten for millions of years, namely
animal fats

Here they suggest that we fix an existing problem by consuming
something that is unralated to the problem otherthan the fact that the
substance does not contain a supposedly and unproven unhealthy
substance, fat.

Silly or what.

TC

montygram · medicine forum Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 825

The omega PUFAs are largely the problem, which is why omega 3s,
especially the highly biochemically unstable fish oil, is being
recommened. The problem is that they are both like drugs - very
powerful, and to take one drug to counteract another drug that one does
not need to take in the first place is really stupid.

Seeweed can be very dangerous. Carrageenan, for example, is used to
give lab animals gut cancers. There's also a pollution issue. On rare
occasion, I use kelp flakes from unpolluted waters, but that's the most
I would consider consumind "seaweed." If there are some studies on
this particular kind, I'd be interested in seeing them, but too many of
today's studies are not on point, but play the "marker" and "endpoint"
shell game, so until good studies are done, it seems best to avoid this
stuff, except in tiny amounts (for a background taste note) once a
month or so.

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