2012/06/08

What are the benefits of eating kelp?

June 8, 2012 is the World Oceans Day. Many patients with kidney diseases always ask whether they are allowed to kelp, so here i want make an explanation.

Kelp has an extremely high amount of iodine, and iodine is the main raw material for the systhesis of thyroxine, which makes the hair black and shiny. If our body is in shortage of iodine, we may suffer hypothyrea.
Kelp has a special substance which is called alginic acid, which can make the excessive salt in the body discharged from our body. So it is not helpful to the hypertensive patients, but also it is beneficial foods to the kidney disease.
The high-quality protein and unsaturated fatty acid contained in kelp has a certain preventative function for the heart disease, diabetes as well as high blood pressure. Besides, kelp colloid can promote the radioactive material discharged out from the body, so as to reduce the morbidity of radioactive diseases.
Besides, kelp has a large amount of mannitol, which has the function of diuresis and detumescence, so it can prevent the Renal Failure, age swelling, and medicines toxins, etc. In fact, mannitol, along with the iodine, patassium and niacin has the function of preventing arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure, aneamia, swelling, etc.

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