But now the humble seaweed has been put forward as the miracle cure for the western world’s obesity epidemic.
It has been harvested for millennia by the coastal folk of Scotland and beyond to feed themselves and fertilise their land, while more recently it has been proposed as a potential new source of biofuel.
But now the humble seaweed has been put forward as the miracle cure for the western world’s obesity epidemic.
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