Best 6 Pumpkin Seed Health Benefits
Deep green and delicious, pumpkin seeds are a nutrient rich snack that offers many benefits for better health.
Here’s 6 reasons why pumpkin seeds are so good for you, including preventing hair loss and prostate enlargement, kidney stones and bladder problems, treating arthritis and improving your skin.
These benefits of pumpkin seeds also include high levels of nutrition and the end of this article has the best Styrian and USA grown, raw and organic pumpkin seeds I’ve found if you’d like to start including them in your diet.
Pumpkin Seeds for Hair Loss
Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) is an important male hormone but excessive amounts circulating in the body can cause problems, particularly later in life for men. High levels of DHT are implicated in both hair loss, resulting in male pattern baldness, and an enlarged prostate, also known as benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Pumpkin seeds are a highly nutritious food with many health benefits. You can eat them all year long if you get bags of the hull-less pepitas, but what about eating fresh pumpkin seeds straight from the pumpkin when they’re in season?
Pumpkins are one of the most overlooked foods in terms of health benefits and nutrients. It seems many people’s only exposure to this extremely healthy food is sugar laden pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Aside from being incredibly addictive, diet cola has some strange ingredients that can damage both your digestive system and longer term health. Let’s have a look at those ingredients ahead.
How exactly did so many of us come to be pouring highly acidic cola down our throats over and over again each day?
If you would like to give up diet soda for good, here are five big reasons why diet sodas can be so damaging to your health and energy.
Something I’ve recently started drinking for their health benefits are superfruit concentrates of high antioxidant fruits and berries.
Most cola and other sodas are packed with staggering amounts of unhealthy high fructose corn syrup or fattening sugar.
A common, but still relatively unknown cause of digestive problems is fructose malabsorption.
When I decided to give up coffee recently, I believe I was able to stop drinking it quite easily because I had the three things from my previous post on
Legal or not, coffee is an addictive drug that affects both your body and brain chemistry. Anyone who drinks coffee regularly and cannot go more than a couple of days without ‘really feeling like’ (needing) a cup is very likely addicted to it.
Giving up caffeine often leads to withdrawal symptoms, including irritability, fatigue, difficulty concentrating and caffeine withdrawal headaches.
After doing the research for this post, I gave up coffee. I’m done with it.
Peppermint tea is a very useful tea to drink for indigestion, gastrointestinal problems and preventing flatulence.
The effects of peppermint tea are generally lighter and gentler than peppermint oil capsules. The tea is very refreshing, doesn’t need to be sweetened and has a real ‘pick me up’ effect whenever you drink it.
Charcoal capsules may well be one of the best emergency flatulence remedies available.
Fennel is an important herb that has been used safely for many thousands of years in Chinese, Indian, Arabian and Western medicines.
Vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet and provide many valuable nutritional benefits.
Black walnuts are a well known human parasite killer and were traditionally used by Native Americans for internal cleansing and digestive problems.