Nutrients vs. toxins

Someone on the vegsource board (www.vegsource.com/talk/raw/index.html) asked about the food value of dulse and it's place in the diet today. Ric was kind enough to compile some past posts on the subject. I find a lot of the thoughts in there valuable (not just about seaweed per se, but about the mentality of modern science/nutrition and the "negative knowledge" people must overcome in order to understand health. I'm posting the compilation here.


Past posts below... Hope they are of assistance to you.ric

Funny, dulce and other seaweeds are known to contain "all the elements of the sea" I have heard various raw food presenters proclaim. This includes uranium, all the heavy metals, lithium, and a wide assortment of toxins .Eating dulce "for the minerals" is like eating belladonna for the minerals . Both are rich in minerals, but both also contain many toxic substances .When people say to me that I shouldn't get close to them because I might catch their cold, I am reminded of eating seaweed for the minerals. We know that there are approximately 1,000 microbes essential to our well-being for every 1 that could exert a negative influence upon our health. Why, I wonder, don't people hug simply to catch health? It should be 1,000 times more effective than catching a cold.
Turning a blind eye to the nutritively negative side of any substance is how doctors recommend alcohol, a protoplasmic poison, to lower blood pressure. I am currently working with a raw food patient who was given pills for pain that ate a hole almost completely through her stomach. That, to me, is akin to eating dulse "for the minerals." :)
Hope this helps,Dr D

I do not recommend the consumption of salt. Our foods are salty enough.
Seaweed, you actually eat it right off the beach? There are several problems. The biggest one is that all the oceans are more polluted than either our air or our land . All pollution finds its way to the water. The water is cleaned by the seaweeds, as they are filter feeders. So the most toxic foods in the world stand to be seaweeds, plus they are the saltiest.
The stimulating impact these foods give is often misconstrued to be well-being. I do not believe it is.
The issue of whether seaweeds are actually vegan fare is a separate matter.I could go on and on, but time is an issue today.
Dr D

Janie said:
Isn't it also true that seaweeds are often mistaken to contain B12, when in fact it's a precursor or something else (that I can't remember the name for) that is likely to fool the body into thinking it's B12, resulting in possible B12 deficiency issues due to the B12 'receptors' of sorts being taken up by the psuedo-B12 of the seaweeds?
It's one of the main reasons I rarely eat it as well (besides that it's usually so darn salty and of course, the pollution already mentioned).

Dr. Graham replied:
Yes, the B12 in seaweeds have been shown to be analog versions. They don't work in the body like B12, but will raise your B12 test results. Nice, eh? Apparently, this is true of the B12 in all dried foods.
Dr D