New weapon in the fight against obesity - seaweed!

Whilst we are often introduced to a number of new fangled diets, either through the media or friends, perhaps one of the most bizarre dietary findings to date is the fact that seaweed can help us to shift pounds.

In actual fact, experts have found that the fibers contained in seaweed can potentially reduce our intakes of fat by as much as 75%. Despite the number of critics who oppose the findings, health movements are beginning to follow them closely, particularly as we are currently in the hold of an obesity pandemic that is seeing 12 million of us diagnosed as obese to date.

The fibrous material that is contained in Sea Kelp, or alginate has been shown to help the body to absorb more fat than the majority of treatments out there.

The joint head of the research, Dr Iain Brownlee, believes that the natural fibers can be mixed into daily diets, in foods such as bread, biscuits and yoghurt and he claims that he has already begun to test the fibers in such foods.

Could this be the answer?

It’s no secret that the NHS is taking much of the strain of the obesity crisis. Experts feel that the fibers will allow us to pass greater levels of body fat through bowel movements and so lose a great deal more weight. "We have already added the alginate to bread and initial taste tests have been extremely encouraging” said Brownless who claims he used an artificial stomach to determine which fibers were more beneficial for weight loss.

Whilst we can take the findings as a positive, we must make our own basic lifestyle changes and maintain them properly, in order to keep a healthy weight.