Nutrition Quiz: Vitamin K

BY MARK WILLIAMS mwilliams@post-dispatch.com | Posted: Monday, July 26, 2010 11:01 am

Clearly, vitamin K needs a new agent. It simply doesn’t garner the attention of those media-absorbing nutrients, vitamins C, D and E.

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From which German word does the "K" in vitamin K come?

Koagulation

Kerngesund

Krapfen

Kure

Wrong.Right. German for coagulation

In addition to promoting blood clotting, vitamin K (according to recent studies) helps protect against what condition in older men?

Diabetes

Sciatica

Gout

Baldness

Wrong.Right. Reduces the risk of insulin resistance

Which leafy-green vegetable has the highest amount of vitamin K?

Kale

Spinach

Collard greens

Broccoli

Wrong.Right. 1 cup, 1,062 micrograms

Which specific population group is particularly susceptible to vitamin K deficiency?

Newborns who are breast-fed

Octogenarians in cold-weather

Bodybuilders taking growth hormones

All of these

Wrong.Right. Human milk is relatively low in vitamin K compared with formula

Adequate intake of vitamin K for adult males is 120 micrograms per day (90 for adult females). How many raw carrots would you have to eat to reach that level?

27

1

9

15

Wrong.Right.

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CREDITS: www.nal.usda.gov;lpi.oregonstate.edu; tuftshealthletter.com

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Posted in Health-med-fit, Multimedia, Food-and-cooking on Monday, July 26, 2010 11:01 am Updated: 10:22 pm.