To Give or Not to Give...That is the K Question?!

An article I read in Midwifery Today Magazine was quite interesting regarding giving babies vitamin k at birth to prevent Vitamin K deficiency Bleeding or VKDB. Read the article at the link below and tell me what you think.


http://www.midwiferytoday.com/enews/enews0344.asp#main

To Give or Not To Give..That is the K Question?

Keeping Up with K

I absolutely love this article posted in the online Le Magazine. The author does a wonderful job in covering Vitamin K, what it is and all of its uses. She breaks the article down into things liek Vitamin K and bone health, Vitamin K and anti-aging, Vitamin K and Alzheimers. This is really good stuff and way too important for me to just outline. If you want to know anything about Vitamin K, this is truly your one stop shop! There are things you may have never even heard of, and she even explains why you haven't.

http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2000/feb00-report.html

Another Reason to Eat Your Greens!

This article on the United States Department of Agriculture further supports some studies done by Booth and in further tracking vitamin k in relation to bone health. It also has a great link to a Nutrient List that allows you to quickly type in any type of food and see what and how much nutrients there are in that item.


http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2007/070801.htm

Systems A Go!

I have been fighting this BLOG foe weeks! Finally I got IT to let me invite other readers so you can all post comments. I kept entering in email addresses and teh system wouldn't except it. I apologize to those who attempted to view and comment, and thank many of you who sent me messages to let me know. The problem is fixed so I hope to read your commetns soon!

What's Cancer Got to Do with It?

I found this really interesting article that not only gives a great history on Vitamin K and its uses for coagulation and bone health, but gives insight to how it is being used as an aid to cancer treatment.

http://www.canceractive.com/page.php?n=507

Hyrdogenation Effects the Impact of Vitamin K

The same group that conducted the study on Vitamin K and its effects on bone mass density in both men and women gave some interesting topics and conclusions in another study. This too was also posted in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The study looked at the effects of hydrogenated plant forms of vitamin k on bone resorption and formation. The study's objective was "to compare the biological effects of phylloquinone and its hydrogenated form, dihydrophylloquinone, on vitamin K status and markers of bone formation and resorption" ( Booth). The study found that plant oils that are hyrodenated decrease not only the biological effect of vitamin k in bone, but the absorption of it as well.


Source Cited:
Booth,Sarah L, Alice H Lichtenstein, Maureen O'Brien-Morse, Nicola M McKeown, Richard J Wood, Edward Saltzman and Caren M Gundberg.American Journal of Clinical Nutrition:Effects of a hydrogenated form of vitamin K on bone formation and resorption.Vol. 74, No. 6, 783-790, December 2001