1,300 babies each year saved from serious birth defects of brain and spine by folic acid
Fortifying grain foods with the B vitamin folic acid has saved about 1,300 babies every year from being born with serious birth defects of the brain and spine known as neural tube defects (NTDs)…
January 19, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: 300-babies, brain, every-year, from-being, grain-foods, known-as-neural, neural-tube, nutritional counseling, pregnancy / obstetrics, serious-birth, the-brain, vitamin-folic
Overall quality of pregnant woman’s diet affects risk for two birth defects, study shows
The overall quality of a pregnant woman’s diet is linked with risk for two types of serious birth defects, a new study has shown. In the study, women who ate better before and during pregnancy gave birth to fewer infants with malformations of the brain and spinal cord, or orofacial clefts, such as cleft lip and cleft palate.
October 3, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: cleft-lip, fewer-infants, nutrition, oncalldietitian.com, overall-quality, pregnant-woman, serious-birth, study, such-as-cleft, two-types
