{"id":419436,"date":"2010-03-12T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/12\/chlorella-a-superfood-great-for-detoxing-and-healing\/"},"modified":"2010-03-12T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T07:45:00","slug":"chlorella-a-superfood-great-for-detoxing-and-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/419436","title":{"rendered":"Chlorella: A Superfood Great for Detoxing and Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/health\/\" rel=\"tag\">Health<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/healthy-eating\/\" rel=\"tag\">Healthy Eating<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/eat-this\/\" rel=\"tag\">Eat This<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/03\/spirulina.chlorella.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The fact that St. Patrick&#8217;s Day is just around the corner provides two great reasons to write about chlorella. 1. This superfood is the greenest of greens. 2. It&#8217;s a great detoxifer and thus, if you are into green beer, you might benefit from a dose of it the morning after St. Patrick&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Chlorella is a single-celled, fresh water algae that is sold in dried form as a powder you can add to water or a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=smoothie\">smoothie<\/a>, or put into capsules to be taken as a supplement. And let me tell you, this is one food deserving of the name <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=superfood\">superfood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interest in chlorella first appeared in the late 1930&#8217;s when researchers were looking for a cheap, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=nutrient-dense\">nutrient-dense<\/a> whole food source to accommodate the expected massive population boom to follow in decades to come. Because of expected food shortages, chlorella looked like it could become a viable primary food source for the population since meat is costly and took up too much space. Why was chlorella such an attractive food in this context?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/12\/chlorella-a-superfood-great-for-detoxing-and-healing\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Chlorella: A Superfood Great for Detoxing and Healing<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/12\/chlorella-a-superfood-great-for-detoxing-and-healing\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19390418\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/12\/chlorella-a-superfood-great-for-detoxing-and-healing\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Health, Healthy Eating, Eat This The fact that St. Patrick&#8217;s Day is just around the corner provides two great reasons to write about chlorella. 1. This superfood is the greenest of greens. 2. It&#8217;s a great detoxifer and thus, if you are into green beer, you might benefit from a dose of it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}