High Blood Pressure & Sunflower Seeds

Cholesterol
Since the turn of the aeon we have discovered that sunflower seeds are regular storehouses for the minerals silicon, magnesium, fluorine and phosphorus, in addition to their particularly generous batchs of calcium and iron. Because of the flower's close affinity to the sun, sunflower seeds are an extremely rich source of vitamin D, being one of the very few plants containing this 'sunshine vitamin.' This is only natural, when we stop to recall that the sunflower is the only plant that visibly turns its head throughout the day to follow the path of the sun across the heavens. sunflower seeds may enter your regimen in several ways. The hulled seeds make a delicious confection, with a flavor far superior, in my opinion, to peanuts. sunflower seeds, hulled and sometimes toasted, have been a delicacy in the Orient and in Slavic countries for many centuries. The vegetarians who have tried 'meat loaf' made of ground sunflower seeds declare it to be far superior in both flavor and nourishment to any other substitute they have found. sunflower seeds contain a protein that approaches meat protein in taste and smell. The meal made from sunflower seeds mixes well with other flours, and bakes quickly. It is delicious, too, when used for thickening soups, gravies and sauces.

Sunflower seeds, together with wheatflakes, should be an essential in every vegetarian diet, as well as in the diets of those persons who are seeking economical, easily digested, youth-protecting proteins. The protein content of sunflower seeds and millet is better balanced and more digestible than that of soybeans which, up until the present, have formed the 'staff of life' for most meatless diets. If I can't persuade you vegetarians to include at least some meats, fish and poultry in your diets, then by all means let me recommend that you get acquainted at once with millet and sunflower seeds, using them in the ways outlined for you-and for other users in further artciles to come.

It is no amazement to me when enthusiastic reports keep coming in from persons who have adopted sunflower seeds as a regular item in their diets. Especially interesting is the almost unanimous praise for sunflower seeds as a food that remedies bleeding gums, and slows down tooth decay. Of course, the explanation for this is the unusually high content of the vitamins A and D, and the minerals calcium Cholesterol