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This indispensable book includes:
- 6 weeks of complete meal plans, with shopping lists
- 95+ delicious Coumadin safe recipes
- Information about managing your diet on Coumadin
- Ingredient and cooking tips throughout the book
- Complete Nutrition Facts including Vitamin K content for each recipe
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How Much Vitamin K is in...?
Find out the exact amount of Vitamin K (in micrograms) of almost a thousand common foods! Listed both alphabetically and then in order of the amount of Vitamin K in the food, this downloadable list (not available in printed book format) will help you know exactly how much Vitamin K you're eating. Just $4.95 for the eBook!
What foods can I eat?
The lists of foods below will give you more information on the Vitamin K levels in various foods. Print them out and use them as a handy guide to what you can eat!
Brief : A short list
of commonly-used foods with their relative Vitamin K
levels (Low, Medium, High)
Medium : A much longer
list of foods, with their relative Vitamin K
levels (Low, Medium, High)
Extensive : The same longer
list as the Medium document, but with exact
levels of Vitamin K in mcgs.
These documents are in PDF Format.
Download Adobe® Acrobat® Reader.
View the Brief list online:
Beverages
Condiments
Dairy
Desserts
Eggs
Fats, Oils, and Dressings
Fruit
Legumes
Meat
Seafood
Snacks
Starches
Vegetables
There's an easy way to find out about the nutrition content of any food. Just use the USDA National Nutrient Database.
By entering an ingredient and following the steps this website will report the complete nutritional values of any ingredient and many prepared foods. The Vitamin K content is the last listing at the bottom of the Vitamins section. If it is not there, the food or ingredient that you searched on doesn't contain enough Vitamin K to be reported.
Welcome PT-INR Cafe Members!
March Menu
We know that legumes are one of the most powerful ingredients in the Mediterranean Diet. They're chock full of protein and great quality carbs as well as antioxidants and vitamins. These little guys have also been shown to help prevent heart disease, and they're high in fiber, which is great for us all - especially diabetics.
Here are some spring salads using some of my favorite legumes:
Black Eyed Pea Salad
Chick Pea Salad
Cumin, Black Eyes and Corn Salad
Lentil and Black Bean Salad
Six Bean Salad
Tuna and White Bean Salad
If
you want to manage your Vitamin K intake, lose weight, lower your cholesterol
or just learn how to eat healthy, you've found the right place. My free,
interactive diet planner, The Real World Diet, will help you
create weekly meal plans - complete with recipes and shopping lists - to
make eating better easy for you and your entire family.
The Real World Diet is perfect for those with food allergies or health issues like GERD / acid reflux, lactose intolerance, and gluten sensitivity.
Those who are on Coumadin (warfarin) will find that keeping your Vitamin K levels stable - and therefore your INR levels stable - will be easier than ever. The Real World Diet is designed to supply you with the recommended daily amount of Vitamin K each and every day.
Find out more about The Real World Diet and your free Coumadin diet plan!
About Coumadin® (warfarin)
The main dietary concern of taking warfarin (common brand name: Coumadin) has to do with the amount of vitamin K in your diet. Vitamin K changes the way warfarin affects the blood. When you eat foods that are high in vitamin K, you can decrease the effect of warfarin. Likewise, eating less vitamin K can increase the effect of the medication.
The key is to try to eat a similar amount of foods that contain vitamin K each day. Don’t make any major changes to your diet without speaking with your doctor. If you want to lose weight, eat a lower fat diet or become a vegetarian, your doctor would want to know about these changes to help manage your warfarin.
Leafy green vegetables tend to contain higher amounts of vitamin K and one rule of thumb is to suspect that green veggies, cabbages and lettuces are high in Vitamin K. Also certain legumes like peanuts and peas might cause problems. Certain vegetable oils have high amounts of vitamin K.
Foods that are low in vitamin K include roots, bulbs, tubers,
some fruits and fruit juices. Cereals, grains and other milled
products are also low in vitamin K.
Keep in mind that the amount of foods you eat with vitamin K add up. So if you eat more foods that contain medium amounts of vitamin K in a particular day, your vitamin K intake will be high for that day.
Ask Dr. Gourmet About Coumadin®
Should you avoid cranberry
juice on Coumadin (warfarin)?
Interestingly, a cup of cranberry juice cocktail has only 2.5 micrograms
(mcg) of Vitamin K. There have been some case reports that
cranberry juice can have an effect on INR levels, however.
More....
How many micrograms
of Vitamin K can I have in one day?
The Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for Vitamin K is 85
micrograms (mcg) per day. Most physicians recommend trying to keep
levels no higher than this as a consequence of the effect that higher
doses can have on INR levels. More....
My husband has
diabetes and is on Coumadin (warfarin). How can I help him eat healthy?
The first step is for you and your husband to speak with
your physician about the number of calories he should be
eating each
day. Many physicians have a dietitian available to their
patients. Such referrals are especially helpful and if possible,
you
should go to the appointment with your husband. More....
Can I use these nutritional supplements while
on Coumadin?
You should absolutely avoid such supplements while taking
warfarin. There is very little solid research done on supplements
and you are putting yourself at very high risk by taking
them along with your Coumadin®. There is with the other medications
you are taking as well. More....
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About Coumadin Questions