Monday, March 26, 2012

The Benefits of eating Seaweed is same with Jogging for 1.5 hours

Replacing food with seaweed is one of reduced-calorie diet. According to research conducted on 79 men who are obese, the result proved that the benefits of eating breakfast with seaweed reduces the amount of calories the same as if someone ran on a treadmill for 1.5 hours.

Quoted by The Thelegraph, the type of seaweed that is used to study is intact seaweed, and not the powder. Intact seaweed has high mineral content as well as natural nutrients because of their habitat, the sea. Sea had a lot of mineral and salt content. Sheffield Hallam University, organizer of the study, no longer using salt as taste, because seaweed already contain a lot of salt.

Seaweed sandwiches breakfast that consumed ​​by the obese men are making they full faster and decrease their caloric intake 179 calories per day. It is the same number of calories to burn if you do 1.5 hours running on a treadmill.

The function of sea grass in the diet is to reduce salt intake, also make the stomach full  faster. Feeling of fullness is no longer making the study participants eager to eat another meal.

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