Posted by Anti-Bill on June 9, 2005, at 12:28:28
In reply to Anyone sea that infomercial for Sea Vegg?, posted by Chris O on March 10, 2005, at 15:41:09
> Because I have such trouble sleeping, I often say up into the wee hours of the night watching television. Last night I was flicking through the channels during "infomerical time" (2:00am-4:00am) and ran across this guy promoting his "Sea Vegg" capsules. Perhaps others here are more versed in the benefits of sea vegetables than me, but his whole theory was that increasing consumption of seaweed could do away with all sorts of modern degenerative diseaes. I'm just curious: Does anyone here eat sea vegetables and if so...has it affected your mood? Is anyone here aware of others who have benefitted from integrating sea veggies into their diet? Just curious.
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> Sincerely,
> Chris
>I saw the infomercial and what Scott Kennedy was very confusing and my "Scam" radar immediately went up. A lot of what he said was not on target and he seemed to be spewing a lot of the garbage that I've been hearing all too often. A couple of things the raised my eyebrows :
1. Our blood has the composition as the sea... Our body salinity is 0.9% where the oceans are 3.5%. I fail to see the link there between sea foods and human physiology.
2. Plants recieve all seven colors of light.. I have no clue what he's talking about here. Light that travels through a prism is better than unrefracted light?
3. Plants grow two feet a day because of their growth hormones... Plant growth hormones called auxins have nothing to due with your growth.
In the informercial he shows piles of papers of studies supporting his claim that algae will cure all your ills. Based on some nonsense a supposed trained biologist/nutritionist says on TV I decided to call to get more information, because that's what the infomercial says. When I spoke to the person on the phone they just reiterated the sales pitch from the show and asked me how much I wanted to buy. I expalined that I was skeptical and wanted more information. The sales rep. then yelled at me saying " I don't need to defend Mr. Kennedy", referred me to the website and hung up. So I went to the website and the only studies I saw we two papers by the same authors (from the same study about sea weed and cancer prevention).
Another side note: I see all of other health claims by natural health remediesbut the worst is pH. All the hoohah about blood pH. The biggest affect on blood pH is CO2 levels which your body is very capable of managing by producing its own natural buffers. Your body pH is 7.4 if its not than there is something seriously wrong and its going to take a lot more than any vitimin pill to fix it.
As far as nutrition we all agree that its important to have a balanced diet and vitimins and minerals are very important for your well being but we need to keep in perspective what the real state of health in the U.S. is: We are living longer than ever before, many diseases people suffered from are completely (or almost) eliminated. These modern day snake-oil salespersons only goal, it appears, is to make you think the state of health is in shambles, doctors are out for your money not your health, and the only way to save your self is to give them your money so you can eat processed algae. I have faith in most americans to see that that is all they are after.
I hope I've made my point.
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