Green Leafy Vegetables Appear To Reduce Your Risk of Coronary Heart Disease
Vitamin K1 which is found in green leafy vegetables looks to reduce your risk of fatal coronary heart disease by 19 per cent. Apparently the import ingredient is phylloquinone and can only be found in a very narrow range of foods. Less know than other vitamins like vitamins A and E, Vitamin K1 awareness is now increasing due to research and supplement companies.
Vitamin K has two forms -
Phylloquinone (vitamin K1) which is found in vegetables such as lettuce, broccoli and spinach.
Menaquinones (vitamins K2), which make up about 10 per cent of Western vitamin K consumption and can be synthesised in the gut by microflora.
Harvard Medical School, reviewed the evidence concerning atherosclerosis and cancer of the liver, and concluded that, based on current literature, it appears possible that vitamin K deficiency is associated with atherosclerosis and hepatocarcinoma.
