Sunflower Seeds / whole food vitamin E

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What can vitamin E foods do for you?

• Protect your skin from ultraviolet light
• Prevent cell damage from free radicals
• Allow your cells to communicate effectively
• Help protect against prostate cancer and Alzheimer's disease

What events can indicate a need for more high-vitamin E foods?

• Digestive system problems, especially malabsorption
• Tingling or loss of sensation in the arms, hands, legs, or feet
• Liver or gallbladder problems

Excellent sources of vitamin E include: spinach, chard, and turnip greens. Very good sources include mustard greens, cayenne pepper, almonds, sunflower seeds, asparagus, and bell peppers.

Food	Serving Size	Vitamin E (milligrams)
Wheat germ oil	1 tablespoon	20.3 mg
Sunflower seeds	1 ounce	7.4 mg
Almonds	1 ounce	6.8 mg
Sunflower oil	1 tablespoon	5.6 mg
Hazel nuts	1 ounce	4.3 mg
Avocado (sliced)	½ a whole avocado	2.0 mg
Broccoli (boiled/steamed)	½ cup	1.2 mg
Mango (sliced)	½ cup	0.7 mg
Spinach (raw)	1 cup	0.6 mg

What the above chart shows is that you have quite a few natural food choices to get vitamin E. Most nuts and seeds are good sources. And eating as many of these foods raw is best because cooking will deplete some of the natural nutrients.

What is vitamin E?

Even though its name makes it sound like a single substance, vitamin E is actually a family of fat-soluble vitamins that are active throughout the body. Some members of the vitamin E family are called tocopherols. These members include alpha tocopherol, beta tocopherol, gamma tocopherol, and delta tocopherol.

Other members of the vitamin E family are called tocotrienols. These members include alpha, beta, gamma, and delta tocotrienol. As increasing information has become available about these forms of vitamin E, more and more of them are understood to have unique functions.

What is the function of vitamin E?

Prevention of oxidative stress

Although humans must breathe oxygen to stay alive, oxygen is a risky substance inside the body because it can make molecules overly reactive. When oxygen-containing molecules become too reactive, they can start damaging the cell structures around them. In chemistry, this imbalanced situation involving oxygen is called oxidative stress.

Vitamin E helps prevent oxidative stress by working together with a group of nutrients that prevent oxygen molecules from becoming too reactive. This group of nutrients includes vitamin C, glutathione, selenium, and vitamin B3. Some researchers believe that vitamin E is the most important member of this oxidative stress-preventing group.

Other roles for vitamin E

While most of the research on vitamin E has focused on its role in prevention of oxidative stress, a variety of new roles have recently been suggested. Most of these new roles involve the transfer of chemical information from one cell to another, or across different structures inside of a cell. This transfer of chemical information is referred to as "cell signaling," and many researchers believe that cell signaling cannot accurately take place without the help of vitamin E.

Vitamin E may play a role in the prevention and/or treatment of the following health conditions:

• Acne
• Alzheimer's disease
• Angina pectoris
• Asthma
• Atherosclerosis
• Breast cancer
• Diabetes
• Epilepsy
• Fibrocystic breast disease
• Gout
• Graves' disease
• Infertility (male)
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Macular degeneration
• Menopause
• Migraine
• Multiple sclerosis
• Oral cancers
• Osteoarthritis
• Parkinson's disease
• Peptic ulcers
• Peripheral vascular disease
• PMS
• Pregnancy-induced hypetension
• Psoriasis
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Senile cataracts
• Squamous cancer
• Stroke
• Tardive dyskinesia
• Vaginitis

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