It is unlikely that any insurance company will offer a better protection of life or insurance, as is the daily intake of vitamins in pregnant women. When the baby is still in the uterus and could not directly obtain the multivitamin for children, are important additions to its mother is taking.
However, it appears that most couples neglect the importance of food through prenatal multivitamins in not knowing that it is important for the baby growing inside. (more…)
As already indicated, vitamin K is found mainly in green vegetables such as spinach or cabbage, but also appears to a lesser extent, in virtually all plants.
Vitamin K, like fat-soluble vitamin that is going to oils such as olive oil, but is largely lost, like other fat-soluble vitamins during the refining process, with the difference that in this case Contrary to what happens with vitamin E, it is added back.
In foods that contain vitamin K is relatively stable. Perfectly withstand heat treatments, although it can be degraded by photochemical oxidation. In some cases, the structure of naphthoquinone can be reduced to form hydroquinone, but this change is reversible and preserves the vitamins.
Usually it is assumed that under normal conditions, intestinal bacteria provided the vast majority of vitamin K, to 90% from that in the body. However, these figures have been revised, so it is considered that their contribution is the order of 50%, but in any case, enough to cover needs in normal situations.
Vitamin K deficiency in humans is very rare. It can occur in newborns, by the combination of three factors, low reserves, low content of human milk and limited bacterial flora. In some countries, all newborns receive a dose of 1 mg of this vitamin. In adults, you may receive a deficiency of this vitamin by the combination of a diet low in severe treatments with antibiotics.
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