Re: Mushrooms

On Jul 23, 9:31 pm, Alan S <loralgtweightandca...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:54:22 -0700 (PDT),
"trigonometry1...@xxxxxxxxx |" <trigonometry1...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Irradition of foods has it costs. As I recall
it causes the loss of about 30 percent of
many vitamins. And it is my understanding
that irradiation really drops vitamin K levels
at least in rat chow. Further some foods
get the taste of burnt hair suggesting the
chemical changes aren't wholely benign.

Interesting. Do you have any cites to support that? Or
should I ask a rat?

Cheers, Alan, T2, Australia.
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It is always good to ask the rat and mice.
Only a fool takes their word and experience lightly ;-)

The following abstract has a full article available
without charge. Use the Pubmed ID number on PUBMED
and use the provided linked to view the full article.

1: Exp Anim. 2007 Jul;56(4):273-8.

Vitamin K deficiency of germfree mice caused
by feeding standard purified diet
sterilized by gamma-irradiation.

Hirayama K, Uetsuka K, Kuwabara Y,
Tamura M, Itoh K.

Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health,
Department of Veterinary Medical Science,
Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences,
The University of Tokyo,
Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan.

Germfree mice died when they were fed a purified diet
of AIN-76 formula sterilized by gamma-irradiation.
Vitamin K deficiency was suspected and this
study was performed to confirm the cause of the
death. Germfree mice were fed purified diets of
AIN-76 or AIN-93M formula, which were pelleted
and sterilized by gamma-irradiation at a dose of
50 kGy. One half of the mice fed the AIN-76
diet died within two weeks and the surviving
animals were also in poor health, while 91% of
mice fed the AIN-93M diet survived. No hemorrhage
was observed grossly in any organs of the surviving
animals. Histologically, degeneration with
inflammatory cell infiltration was observed as
well as hemorrhage and fibrosis in
the heart muscles of mice fed the AIN-76 diet.
No microscopic lesions were observed in the other
organs. Prothrombin time (PT) and activated partial
thromboplastin time (APTT) were extremely prolonged
when mice were fed the AIN-76 diet. The animals totally
recovered when they were intragastrically administered
1 microg/day of vitamin K(3) from the third day of
feeding of the AIN-76 diet, except for PT and APTT
which were still slightly longer than in mice fed the
AIN-93M diet. The concentration of vitamin K(3)
supplied in the AIN-76 diet decreased to an
undetectable level after gamma-irradiation,
while the AIN-93M diet contained 240 microg/kg
of vitamin K(1). These results indicate that the
deaths of the germfree mice fed the
gamma-irradiated AIN-76 diet were caused by
vitamin K deficiency. Vitamin K deficiency
may cause fatal degeneration of
cardiac muscle cells.


PMID: 17660681

And yes the radiation dose used was a bit
big but not wildly so in comparison to the
the maximum limit permited with human foods.


And I'll add the following link:
http://www.citizen.org/print_article.cfm?ID=12340

I just snagged this off the web and I haven't
carefully read it or checked the citations.

Understand I was just "speaking off the cuff."
.................Trig

Not yet DX for diabetes but I've been
checking my blood glucose levels and some of
the values have been bad enough to provoke
me to change my diet to a low carb regimen
and up my dose of alpha lipoic acid.





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