Only one third of women take folic acid before pregnancy to prevent spina bifida
Research recently published from Queen Mary University of London reveals less than 1 in 3 women have taken folic acid supplements before pregnancy to prevent spina bifida and other birth defects of the brain, spine, or spinal cord (neural tube defects).
February 21, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: acid-supplements, before-pregnancy, birth, brain, diet, london, oncalldiets, other-birth, pregnancy / obstetrics, queen-mary, recently-published, spinal-cord, university
Folic Acid Unlikely To Increase Risk of Cancer
Folic acid supplements are unlikely to increase people’s risk of cancer when taken for up to 5 years. The finding came from new research which looked at data on nearly 50,000 people and was published in The Lancet…
January 25, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: acid-supplements, diet, finding-came, from-new, increase-people, looked-at-data, nutrition / diet, on call diets, research-which
