Scientists may have discovered that a brown seaweed called wakame, which is used to make a Japanese soup called miso, contains a carotenoid called fucoxanthin.
When they fed this to rats, the rodents seemed to be able to loose up to ten percent of their body weight, mostly from around their mid-sections.
While the researchers say that eating large amounts of the miso soup will do little to nothing for you, they hope to be able to make a pill which will be released in as much as five years.
They say this seaweed works in two different ways. The first is that it helps break down fat, and the second is that it helps to get rid of bad cholesterol.
They further say that it also was found to kill human prostate cancer cells in their experiments, and acted as a preventative for other diseases.