Seaweed Extracts Can Help You Lose Weight, Mostly Body Fat

'Alginated-based supplements from seaweed enhanced the weight loss results of an energy-restricted diet, suggests new data from Denmark.


Using the commercially available sodium alginate Protanal LFR 5/60 from FMC Biopolymers, researchers from the University of Copenhagen report that obese people taking the alginate supplements lost an average of 1.74 kg more of body weight than those on placebo.


The additional loss of body weight was "mainly attributed to a reduction in the percentage of body fat", they wrote in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.


"These results suggested that alginate may be a potential agent to achieve a clinically relevant reduction in body weight in obese subjects when consumed as prescribed as an adjuvant to an energy-restricted diet."'

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Vegetarians Have a Lower Risk of Heart Attacks, Cancer, Stroke and Diabetes

 

'Vegetarians experience a 36 percent lower prevalence of metabolic syndrome than non-vegetarians, suggests new research from Loma Linda University published in the journal Diabetes Care. Because metabolic syndrome can be a precursor to heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, the findings indicate vegetarians may be at lower risk of developing these conditions.

A previous analysis of data from 52,700 men and women in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that those who did not eat meat had significantly fewer cancers overall than those who did.' 


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