Health benefits of sunflower seeds

Question
I'm not sure if you can answer this, but I've been snacking on a lot of sunflower seeds in the last few weeks. Is there any nutritional value to them at all? What's the best thing to snack on while relaxing?

Answer
Dear William,

Health benefits of sunflower seeds are mostly due to significant amounts of phytosterols, vitamin E, magnesium, magnesium, and selenium. Because of that, there are plenty of research data on anti-inflammatory, cardio-protective, and cancer-preventive effects of the seeds.

Details of nutritional values of the seeds you can find at:

http://atkinszone.com/recipes/2009/02/sunflower-seed-nutritional-values.html


Tanya Zilberter

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