vitamin K & selenium?

[Sateri]

I've been using Fitday (www.fitday.com) after a member on this site mentioned it. On it, it calculates the vitamins in the food you eat each day and gives you a general idea of whether you're getting enough of each vitamin based on your age, etc.

So anyway, I found out almost every day I'm very low on Vitamin K and selenium (usually only 10-20% of what I should be having). I looked around online for a while, but I guess my googling skills are poor, because I couldn't find out: what foods have vitamin K and/or selenium, and what benefits do those vitamins have?

Thanks in advice for any info.

[StarDrifter]

I just checked my daily multivitamin. Granted it's a One-A-Day "Men's Health" formula, but still... it takes care of the selenium. It actually takes care of a lot of things.

About vitamin K - this is interesting. From the USDA, no less. www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/jan00/green0100.htm

It looks like vegetables and, um, oil. Spinach and broccoli look to be the best sources. "Dark green vegetables" is the general version.

Here's another and broader (but still too vague) list I dig up from Google: www.dietitian.com/vitamink.html

And finally, a smaller but more exact list of foods here: lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/vitamins/vitaminK/#food_source

A sheet on Selenium is here, looking very imposing in its size: ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/selenium.asp -- but there are some suggested foods toward the top. It looks like this is a fairly useful thing to take in.

Finally, that same site has a fact sheet on Vitamin K in .pdf format toward the bottom of this page: dietary-supplements.info.nih.gov/Health_Information/Information_About_Individual_Dietary_Supplements.aspx

[Sateri]

Thanks!