sunflower seeds?

Trish,

The heavy duty, high amount phytos, such as soy I wouldn't eat.  Flax is still in the unknown as being helpful long term but it did reduce the size of a tumor in humans.  They just don't do human studies on us who already had a cancer with these foods. 

Your going to be eating phytos the entire day without knowing it, just try to steer away from the heavy duty phytos if you can.  I'm not giving up seseme seeds and it's high on the list but I don't take tamoxifen either.  Tamoxifen users need to stay away from seseme seeds.

By the way, they did a study, very informal one based on what people ate, and those who ate from the high in phyto list seemed not to get as much lung cancer as those who didn't.   So there's good and bad.  Sad to say we don't really know how it will effect us ER+'s.

Trish,

Well, since they're salted seeds, I'd throw them out.  But if they were unsalted, I wouldn't think twice about them, I just wouldn't eat too much of them daily.  They're addictive little buggers.  I love them on a salad.

That study was a good start.  Short term use and flax worked.  Since then, there's nothing that I can find about flax and long term use after a ER+ dx in humans.   They're still studying mice and flax, and flax in petri dishes, but not us.