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This Ancient European Diet May Have Been Key To Longevity — Should We Bring it Back?

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Seaweed isn’t something that generally features today in European recipe books, even though it is widely eaten in Asia. But our team has discovered molecular evidence that shows this wasn’t always the case. People in Europe ate seaweed and freshwater aquatic plants from the Stone Age right up until the Middle Ages before they disappeared from our plates.

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