Pulmonary Embolism Support Group
By far the most common form of pulmonary embolism is a thromboembolism, which occurs when a blood clot, generally a venous thrombus, becomes dislodged from its site of formation and embolizes to the arterial blood supply of one of the lungs. Symptoms may include difficulty breathing, pain during breathing, and more rarely circulatory instability and death.
I'll start with one that isn't 'lesser':
Raw green bell pepper has 11.0 mcg vit. k per one cup serving.
Raw red bell pepper has about half that amount
Raw yellow bell pepper has no amount listed on the site I'm using. (Don't know if that just means they haven't collected data for it or it has none. Doubt there's none.)
http://nutritiondata.self.com/
Drgourmet (!) says there no vit k in yellow bell peppers. Can that be backed up?
Orange bell peppers weren't listed at all.
Raw green bell pepper has 11.0 mcg vit. k per one cup serving.
Raw red bell pepper has about half that amount
Raw yellow bell pepper has no amount listed on the site I'm using. (Don't know if that just means they haven't collected data for it or it has none. Doubt there's none.)
http://nutritiondata.self.com/
Drgourmet (!) says there no vit k in yellow bell peppers. Can that be backed up?
Orange bell peppers weren't listed at all.
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Look at what my best friend did with my picture!
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We all have 24 hours in a day. How we spend these hours is important. Watching a little bit of a video about how sitting affects us made me aware of how much sitting and laying down I do. Gonna have to work on that.Your turn. Tell me another truth.
I wish you lived closer to me rmb, I'd love to go have coffee with you. Or a beer.
Yeah, the INR is a tricky thing. I've been working over my diet recently trying to get my over-300 cholesterol level to drop a little. I'm eating better and trying to decrease my calorie intake. As a result, I'm eating a lot more greens and my daily intake of calories has reduced from sky-high to 1500-2000. The result? My INR goes from 2.2 to 2.6. Go figure.
Sometimes you just gotta do it to figure out how it'll affect you. Knowing how much VitK (down to the mcg?? really??) is in something doesn't help me at all. I just have to pay attention to what I change and then see later if my INR has changed.
I mean, cave76, that I'm glad you're enjoying doing huge amounts of research on this but ultimately it (a) won't really have any prove-able effect on anyone's INR and (b) could freak out newbies who think that they have to go "old school" with VitK restriction or risk dying.
Ultimately, I think there are probably better uses of time and energy.
You girls rock with your replies.
and i wonder how much variance there is from one bunch of micro greens or beets greens to the next bunch. How much loss of vit K from the way they are prepared....... way to many variables for one to even contemplate. wait i better go have a drink before thinking about this.......
M2LR, wouldn't that be fun?! And it would be a drink, or two or three, for sure!
Listing the Vit K in some foods (here on this thread) is not intended to imply that you should limit or increase those foods in your diet.
The listing is a compilation of facts, nothing more, just as a dictionary might be.
about 41 mcg per one cup.
Soy is usually one of the items listed in warfarin patient materials as something to be mindful of in terms of interactions. I eat some type of soy product almost daily.
What happens in Vegas....
Nopales come in at 7.6 mcg per cup. Posted for the benefit of Toss.
(grin)
Another non-green veggie that may be considered a lesser-know food is cauliflower. It's in the brassica/cruciferous group like cabbage/brussel sprouts et al.
Now, here's the really gnarly part------ looking up cauliflower 'on the Internet' is rife with information that's either very hard to interpret and sometimes completely wrong.
That's why reading on the Internet has to be done with some glimmer of knowledge about HOW to read/interpret the material.
For instance, one of the funniest AND most confounding bit of non-information about the Vit K in some common brassicas is on
http://whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=btnews&dbid=126
You're told broccoli has 351 'somethings' (doesn't list the measure, such as mcg or tons!)
At the top of the chart is this: "Amount for each vegetable = 100 calories"
!!!! No mention of cup measure/weight of the vegetable (like a gram or oz or pound).
Even if I were adept at math I doubt if I'd take the time to look up different charts to see what would be the average weight or cup measure for 100 calories worth of broccoli!
Gack!
One site listed beets and beet greens together in the chart. (FYI beet greens are high and beet root has almost no Vit K)
Some sites list cauliflower as low in vit K--- but the wary reader has to make sure they've read that it's based on a 1/2 cup measure. That's a no brainer, sure. But...... many people would see 'low' and move on.
Four spears = 30 mcg Vit K
Not too bad----- but who will eat only 4 spears? Not me. (grin)