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
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
