Scientists have pinpointed a unlikely potential weapon in the war against obesity - seaweed.
They found rats given fucoxanthin - a pigment in brown kelp - lost up to 10% of their body weight, mainly from around the gut.
They hope fucoxanthin can be developed into a slimming supplement or a drug that targets harmful fat.
The Hokkaido University research was presented to an American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco.
See my comment on Brown Seaweed.
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