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Q :
by Dr Kathryn from Parksville, Canada
I wonder why you do not advocate to consumption of seaweed as I thought it was beneficial for minerals and detoxifying the system of heavy metals.

A :
Answer (Published   December 29, 2006 )
 
Not sure why you received that impression. Just because I don't mention something doesn't mean I don't believe it is helpful. Seaweed can be a wonderful food source and I have some regularly. But ideally one should consume it based on metabolic typing principles, not blindly because it is "supposed to be good for you.
 
 
   
 
 
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BY PlantLady   
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Author of the Article November 08, 2008
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This is interesting! When I was a freshman in high school I moved to SE Alaska for a year and spent a lot of time with Tlingit Indians and eating the same foods they did. The first day there I regestered for school. As I was standing at the office window, the bell rang and lots of students poured from the classrooms. I thought they were all middle school students as they looked so young. Later I was shocked to discover these same students I saw exiting the classrooms were seniors!

I have long wondered what kept these students from looking the same age as their counterparts in the "lower 48". Perhaps it's a combination of the cooler weather and their diet, which, consequently, included a lot of seaweed, salmon, herring (including herring eggs on fir branches...not one of my faves), halibut, red snapper and rice. Potatoes and dairy products weren't regularly consumed as they were very expensive ( a gallon of milk approached $4 in 1976). On the other hand, living in the extreme North also deprived them of Vitamin D3, but perhaps they needed less due to the darker pigments in their skin and the fact that in winter when there was sun it was strongly reflected back from the snow (snowed from late Oct. to late May)....

 
     
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BY helpingheart   
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Author of the Article March 23, 2007
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Dr Mercola - What type of metabolic type "should" use seaweed?

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