re: You Need Vitamin K to Prevent Arterial Plaque & Heart Disease

terryd1960 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:05:07 GMT

Soybean oil has four times the amount of Vitamin K as olive oil, not surprisingly, since soy is high in vitamin K. I found this out in nursing school during my cardiac rotation. People who have suffered blood clots are being told not to eat leafy greens because of the high Vit K content. Then, they're being told to eliminate saturated fats and use vegetable oil without ever specifying WHICH vegetable oils are healthy, like organic cold-pressed olive oil and organic cold-pressed canola oil. "Vegetable oil" is soybean oil in the USA, so these people are being told to use an oil that can, quite literally, kill them. I'm surprised Dr Mercola doesn't have it listed here as a high-vitamin K food, especially since it is so pervasive in the American diet, both right out of the bottle on kitchen shelves everywhere and in the huge number of processed foods eaten by the average American. (Yes, I know Dr M does not advocate the use of soybean oil, but not everybody has been on this website long enough to know that, yet he didn't include this info in this article. It's important, because traditional doctors DO recommend soybean oil to their patients, all the time, and I'm sure plenty of newbies to this website, and natural medicine in general, still look to their traditional physicians for much of their health information.) See the link below for info on the Vit k content of various foods.

www.vitamindeals.info/.../vitamin-k.html

re: You Need Vitamin K to Prevent Arterial Plaque & Heart Disease

Joeth Bremmer — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:04:18 GMT

This quote "Vitamin K1, is also called phylloquinone or menaquinone 4." is wrong.

Menaquinone 4 is a form of vitamin K2.

The quote was taken from the following link:

articles.mercola.com/.../vitamin-k-part-one.aspx

re: You Need Vitamin K to Prevent Arterial Plaque & Heart Disease

roland_3 — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 07:06:53 GMT

Yes, interesting but still no reference level of optimal plasma K1 (or K2) for that matter.

I had mine tested and it was 1.11ug/L with a reference range of (0.09 - 2.12).

Probably I am low but how am I to know !

Thank's, Roland - New Zealand