How Seaweed Can Help You Lose Weight

There are so many things that seaweed can do for you such as:

• Weight Loss

• Hormonal Balance

• Fighting Cancer

• Healthy Pregnancy

and without seaweed, the fallout could be catastrophic.

Okay, not really but one of the key elements in seaweed could and can cause numerous illnesses and diseases.

Iodine

We need iodine in our lives. Without it, you leave yourself perceptible to PCOS, prostate disorders, several different thyroid disorders, autoimmune diseases, and diabetes.

For males and females over the ages of 19, it is recommended by the National Institution of Health, NIH, to take no more than 1,100 mcg per day of Iodine(1).

Ages:

14-18 900mcg

9-13 600mcg

4-8 300mcg

1-3 200mcg

Other Sources Of Iodine

If you can't stand the taste of seaweed, or if you have an allergy, there are plenty of other sources of Iodine, other than the Iodized salt.

Seaweed contains a compound sodium alginate. This compound is used in ice cream, salad dressing, and yogurts to thicken them up!

If you ever needed an excuse to eat ice cream now you have one.

Other foods that contain iodine are:

(this is a list in descending order, for the amounts of iodine they contain)

• Seaweed

• Cod

• Yogurt

• Iodized Salt

• Milk

• Fish Sticks

• White Bread

• Fruit Cocktail In Heavy Syrup

• Eggs

• Tuna

• Corn

• Prunes

• Cheddar Cheese

• Raisin Bran Cereal

• Lima Beans

• Apple Juice

• Green Peas

• Bananas

One sheet of seaweed ranking from 16 to 2,984mcg per serving and a medium banana at 3mcg.

That's a huge difference, the cod is only at 99mcg per serving.

Cancer-Fighting

If you are still yet convinced, let me paint this picture for you. Iodine is so essential for your health that even in the 1800s a chemist produced the first Iodine pill to help patients with thyroid diseases and as an antiseptic for external wounds.

Those pills would then go on to help the people of Chernobyl and even more.

Weight Loss

Seaweed, found in many studies, can block fat absorption by 75%. When seaweed was paired with pomegranate oil, there was a significant amount of weight loss in obese patients. So grab some pome juice and munch on your dry seaweed.

Signs You Have A Iodine Deficiency

• Swelling In The Neck

• Fatigue

• Weight Gain

• Feeling Weak

• Hair Loss

• Dry, Flakey Skin

• Slow Heart Rate

• Memory Problems

• Trouble Retaining, Learning

• Heavy Irregular Periods

• Pregnancy Complications

There are so many things seaweed does for you and Iodine even more so. To keep learning more make sure to subscribe and if you have any questions or want to know more leave a comment or shoot me a message on the forum page.

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