{"id":306,"date":"2005-05-31T15:30:53","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T19:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/05\/31\/north-korean-seaweed-candy-makes-you-w"},"modified":"2005-05-31T15:30:53","modified_gmt":"2005-05-31T19:30:53","slug":"north-korean-seaweed-candy-makes-you-wicked-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/05\/31\/north-korean-seaweed-candy-makes-you-wicked-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean Seaweed Candy Makes You Wicked Smart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a5205'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/karret.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\">SEOUL (Reuters) &#8211; Candy is dandy for North Korean children trying<br \/>\n        to grow tall, strong and smart in a country battling chronic food shortages.<\/p>\n<p>      North Korea has developed a candy it claims is good for children and will<br \/>\n      help them increase their height, weight and IQ, a pro-North Korea newspaper<br \/>\n      published in Japan said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>      &quot;Unlike medications that help growth by clinical methods or hormonal<br \/>\n      effects, the growth nutritional candy has no negative side effects,&quot; the<br \/>\n      Choson Sinbo said, based on an interview with the head of a nutritional<br \/>\n      research<br \/>\n      center in the North.<\/p>\n<p>      Unlike sugar-packed and chocolate-covered sweets, the North is hoping that<br \/>\n      children in the reclusive state will enjoy munching on their nutritional<br \/>\n      candy made of seaweed, beans, carrots and sesame seeds, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Who knew that one could make candy out of beans, carrots and seaweed<br \/>\n        that would produce the New Superman? Obviously a plot on the part of<br \/>\n        the Sugar Cartels to keep this information from the public. We&#8217;ll try<br \/>\n        to remember to keep an eye out for tall, heavy, smart North Koreans in<br \/>\n        15 or 20 years&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.excite.com\/\/article\/20050527\/2005-05-27T150847Z_01_SEO322039_RTRIDST_0_ODD-KOREA-CANDY-DC.html\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL (Reuters) &#8211; Candy is dandy for North Korean children trying to grow tall, strong and smart in a country battling chronic food shortages. North Korea has developed a candy it claims is good for children and will help them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/05\/31\/north-korean-seaweed-candy-makes-you-wicked-smart\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}