Uncle Harry’s Pumpkin Seeds & Oil Diet

          Uncle Harry’s Organic Pumpkin Seeds consist of ripe dried seeds from Austria, where pumpkin cultivation has been a staple for centuries. Pumpkin cultivation dates back to 14,000 BC in its native Mexico and North America. These seeds are highly nutritious, containing chlorophyll pigments, the amino acids cucurbitin and phytosterol in free and bound forms, essential fatty acids such as palmitic, stearic, oleic, and lineoic, b- and g- tocopherol, beta carotene, and minerals including selenium, zinc, calcium, copper, iron, manganese, phosphorus, and potassium.

          Traditionally, supplementing one’s diet with pumpkin seeds or pumpkin seed oil has been known to provide many benefits to be used as a medicinal treatment. The seed has been reported to be effective in eliminating both tapeworms and roundworms when prepared as a paste of 200-400g of ground seeds mixed with honey and milk and ingested in two doses on an empty stomach. The Menominee people of Wisconsin used the seed to facilitate the passage of urine. In fact, the seeds have been known in modern medicine to help in the treatment of an irritable bladder as well as aiding in the reduction of the formation of bladder stones.

          Clinical studies show that urinary flow, frequency, time spent urinating, post-void dribbling, and backwash become improved upon the ingestion of a crushed pumpkin seed preparation.

          Pumpkin seeds have anti-inflammatory and anti-androgenic properties. They has been known to aid in the treatment of prostate problems including mild forms of prosthetic hyperplasia, a source of urination disorders. Men in countries such as Bulgaria, Turkey, and Ukraine traditionally consume pumpkin seeds to reduce prostate enlargements.

          There is a high content of alpha linolenic acid in pumpkin seeds and in pumpkin seed oil, as in flax oil and purslane. New research is pointing to the benefits of high dietary doses of alpha linolenic acid in helping to prevent breast cancer and improving survival in breast cancer patients.

          Uncle Harry’s Organic Pumpkin Seeds and Pumpkin Seed oil bears the Austrian seal of the highest available quality, regularly tested to ensure purity and potency. The drying and roasting process are stringently monitored to ensure the seeds are never exposed to temperatures that might reduce its nutritional qualities.