The scientists at Newcastle University have suggested that adding seaweed fiber to bread may serve as a fat fighting diet, assisting people to lose weight. The secret to fat-fighting is the natural fiber alginate, which is revealed to be found in sea kelp and is already used in food as a thickener and stabilizer.

A team of scientists led by physiologist Dr. Iain Brownlee and Prof. Jeff Pearson discovers that alginate cuts the body's fat uptake by more than 75%. That is better than most anti-obesity treatments.

Dr. Brownlee recently said, "We hope to bring about products which have health benefits but which are also tasty and which people want to eat in the first place".

However, clinical trials are revealed to be in process to discover the efficacy of it in a normal diet.

The study is reported to have used an "artificial gut" to bring the effectiveness of it at test involving 60 different natural fibers by measuring the extent to which they posed its affect on the fat digestion in the body.

Despite endless claims about this miracle diet for weight reduction, the real surety for this can be acknowledged only when highly sufficient evidence is provided based on rigorous trials.   

David Haslam of the National Obesity Forum doubting the claims, quoted, "There are countless claims about miracle cures for weight loss but only a few cases offer any sound scientific evidence to back up these claims”.

Carrying the study to higher levels, Dr. Brownlee claims to initiate with the next step that would be to involve volunteers to study the effects that have experimented in lab can be actually reproduced in people,

In addition, most importantly it is required to discern whether such foods are acceptable as part of a normal diet. To volunteer, email fibrefood@newcastle.ac.uk