UK abortion charity urges that ministers act to reduce avoidable birth defects
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) is urging the UK’s health ministers to implement recommendations to fortify flour with the vitamin folic acid to reduce cases of neural tube defects (NTDs) like spina bifida and anencephaly in pregnancy. There are an estimated 1,000 cases of these conditions diagnosed every year in the UK, not including miscarriages.
March 19, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: advisory-service, bpas, british, british-pregnancy, diagnosed-every, health-ministers, like-spina, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, pregnancy / obstetrics, reduce-cases, these-conditions, vitamin, vitamin-folic
Consumption Of Resistant Starch May Protect Against Bowel Cancer
Western diets are typically low in fibre and have been linked with a higher incidence of bowel cancer. Even though Australians eat more dietary fibre than many other western countries, bowel cancer is still the second most commonly reported cancer in Australia with 30 new cases diagnosed every day…
April 28, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: australia, australians, diagnosed-every, diet, dietary-fibre, new-cases, nutritional counseling, on call diets, other-western, typically-low
