Tide of seaweed promises can ebb and flow

Seaweed can shrink your waistline. Grow your hair. Bring down your blood pressure along with your blood sugar. Build up the strength of your bones and your brain. Make your joints stop aching and your bowels get moving. Give cancer short shrift, and give cellulite and wrinkles the old heave-ho.

By Karen Ravn, Special to the Los Angeles Times

May 24, 2012