Good Food Good Health-Vitamin K
March 8th, 2010 | By adminHello everyone
Vit.K
We all know how important it is for a balanced diet, maintain a healthy diet of all vitamins that are important for the body to go to work tirelessly, day after day, we are all confused when you look sick or we go out, whether by diets that have lived or instant foods, preservatives and additives, vol.
I see we have a good food for good health "slogan as a way of life, we are what we eat, so if youwant your body to run smoothly we need nutritious food – well that will not drive the Porsche on a two-stroke fuel, and expect a smooth ride or an optimal effect, God forbid, your body works in exactly the same although of course you can change the car every year, until now, medical science is not quite up to that yet!
Vitamin K is one of the best-known vitamins, but play an important role in our wellbeing. Until recently he thought it was useful only inhelps blood clot, now if you ask me, which is very important if we want to cut deaths.
Vitamin K has two main forms phylloquinine (vitamin K1), known also as Phytonadione and menaquinones (vitamin K2).
Phylloquinine K1 to 90 percent of vitamin K in the typical diet of vegetables and green leafy vegetables are available as cabbage, lettuce, spinach, broccoli, etc. as well as vegetable oils.
Menaquinones also in the diet come from differentproducts such as meat, cheese and fermented foods.
Our body naturally produces vitamin K from food into gut bacteria, but there is no way of knowing what will give us our daily needs.
Studies have shown that vitamin K is known to help the body substantially in many ways and is hailed as a natural wonder drug.
K1 and K2 play an important role in bone health, giving the minor modification of protein osteocalcin is required forfootball bone matrix. It also produces GLA – "glue" that amino acid that helps keep calcium in bones. For postmenopausal women, vitamin K is important for osteoporosis to help the bay, since studies have shown that taking a supplement of 45 mg of vitamin C daily for 3 years actually improve bone density.
Worrying, it was found that people who have a deficiency of vitamin K was associated with bone loss and arterial calcification.
As a result of this researchin rats with astonishing results. It was found that feeding rats a diet rich in K2 in 6 weeks, further hardening of the arteries was hindered, and a reduction of 37 per cent from the existing pavement. Since there is currently no cure for hardened arteries, cardiovascular specialists are very happy for this event has the same effect on humans and the future of the disease, up to this study are promising.
Hardened arteries – arterial calcification causesThe walls of the arteries lose elasticity, making the heart work to a higher percentage of pumping blood through the body. This additional pressure on the heart can cause heart attacks by up to 50 percent more!
Atherosclerosis is not only a bad diet can also be done through injuries and a simple beat small enough, this process of calcification of the arteries takes months or even years, causing inflammation of blood vessel walls and through the liquidcholesterol debris, and then come and see the site and it is here, calcification – hardening occurs.
So if we all eat a balanced diet and good food, including greens that many people do not like to ensure that we maintain our levels of vitamin K and the benefits of good health has increased significantly. Supplements are also available to increase your contribution.
As we said good food and good health.
Sandra & Ted
