This book is actually three books published as one volume for what may be the first time. This is the story of the Spanish princess Katherine of Aragon and it's beautiful, tragic and stirring. Katherine was the daughter of Queen Isabella of Spain.
As a result, a form of vitamin K deficiency, called hemorrhagic disease of the newborn, may develop. This disease involves spontaneous bleeding beneath the skin or elsewhere in the infant's body, and occurs in about 1% of all infants.
Humans are unable to synthesize vitamin K. It must either be acquired from dietary sources, or as metabolic by-products of intestinal bacteria. Still, the vitamin is so widely distributed in nature that nutritional deficiencies do not occur under normal circumstances.ecause vitamin K is common in many foods and is also synthesized by intestinal bacteria, deficiency in humans is unlikely to occur under normal conditions.