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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Plants growing in the waters of Southeast Alaska have to be tough to withstand the strong tides, cold temperatures, relentless summer daylight and abundance of plant-nibbling species.
That toughness, it turns out, can also result in health benefits for the people who eat the plants, according to emerging research by scientists at North Carolina State University.
The scientists, at NC State’s Plants for Human Health Institute, have found extremely high levels of “bioactive phytochemicals” in edible plants gathered from waters and beaches in the Sitka area.
One study, published last year in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, evaluated the chemical compounds of six species of seaweed and one tidal plant. The tested species were four kinds of brown algae -- bladderwrack, sugar wrack, kelp and winged kelp -- one type of red algae commonly known as laver, one type of green algae commonly known as sea lettuce and a shore plant commonly known as goosetongue.
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/artic...may-be-potent-weapon-against-diabetes-obesity
That toughness, it turns out, can also result in health benefits for the people who eat the plants, according to emerging research by scientists at North Carolina State University.
The scientists, at NC State’s Plants for Human Health Institute, have found extremely high levels of “bioactive phytochemicals” in edible plants gathered from waters and beaches in the Sitka area.
One study, published last year in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, evaluated the chemical compounds of six species of seaweed and one tidal plant. The tested species were four kinds of brown algae -- bladderwrack, sugar wrack, kelp and winged kelp -- one type of red algae commonly known as laver, one type of green algae commonly known as sea lettuce and a shore plant commonly known as goosetongue.
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/artic...may-be-potent-weapon-against-diabetes-obesity