0 The sand at Canyamel

I have just come home from a holiday in Canyamel in Majorca, and discovered an interesting story concerning the sand their. The sand in the area has had a huge impact on the fight against Obesity. In the 1960's the workers from the Roche company usually spent their summer holidays here and had a curieus habit of taking a fistful of sand away with them as a souvenir. One of the staff happened to have the sand analysed and by pure coincidence discovered a fungus on the sand, named streptomyces toxytricini an anti obesity cure. So this natural fungus has now a use