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• Folic Acid Late in Pregnancy Tied to Asthma in Kids

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 544
  FRIDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Children born to women who take folic acid in late pregnancy are at increased risk for asthma , Australian researchers say. read more
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• Beating the November Blues

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 142
  It gets dark at 4:30PM, it’s dreary, it’s windy, it’s darn right depressing. In fact, on most days in November, curling into bed at 3PM for a nap just feels like the natural thing to do. Hibernation, I think it’s called! November just ain’t one of my favorite months. I’d take peaceful white snow over the ...
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• Folic acid supplement in late pregnancy may increase child’s asthma risk

  
  iHealthBulletin News — Authority: 132
  Adelaide.edu.au - Researchers from the University’s Robinson Institute have identified a link between folic acid supplements taken in late pregnancy and allergic asthma in children aged between 3 and 5 years, suggesting that the timing of supplementation in pregnancy is important.Associate Professor Michael Davies ...
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• Folic acid supplements linked to childhood asthma

  
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  Folic acid supplements taken throughout pregnancy may increase risk of childhood asthma by as much as 26 percent, researchers say. New research out of the University of Adelaide in Australia has found that pregnant women who ingest folic acid supplements in late pregnancy may increase the risk of asthma in their ...
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• Try it Tuesday: Beets

  
  Good for You! — Authority: 128
  US First Lady Michelle Obama has garnered lots of positive press for her initiative to build a White House garden and farmer’s market. But poor old beets didn’t make it into the garden because, apparently the Prez hates the red rooty bulbs. I can just hear him now … “Let me be clear: No beet [...]
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• Iron and folic acid during pregnancy reduces child’s death risk

  
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  JHSPH.edu - Children of mothers who had received an iron and folic acid supplement during pregnancy had dramatically reduced mortality through age 7, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Researchers found that other supplement combinations, including the multiple ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mortality rates reduced among children whose mothers received iron-folic acid supplements

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 126
  Offspring whose mothers had been supplemented with iron-folic acid during pregnancy had dramatically reduced mortality through age 7, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Researchers found that other supplement combinations, including the multiple micronutrient supplement, ...
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• Mortality rates reduced among children whose mothers received iron-folic acid supplements

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 630
  Offspring whose mothers had been supplemented with iron-folic acid during pregnancy had dramatically reduced mortality through age 7, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
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• Folic acid in our daily bread: mandatory fortification turns the population into children

  
  Telegraph.co.uk News Blog — Authority: 798
  Last week I collected a sack of delicious stoneground white flour, which I use to make sourdough bread. Stoates of Dorset mill the flour using French burr millstones made of limestone, which crush the wheat berry and mingle its constituent parts, including the nutritious outer layers of bran and germ and the oil that ...
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• Depression: Vitamin Supplements May Help to Stop Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  New research in depression causes found out that supplements could help to stop this disease in depressed people that might have problems metabolizing the B vitamin folate. According to Dr. Ingvar Bjelland of the University of Bergen, vitamins are important, not only for the physical health, but for the mental health ...
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• Seeing the Value of Folic Acid during Pregnancy

  
  Testing It Up Drug & Health Testing News Test Country Blog — Authority: 145
  Folic acid, also known as folate is an essential vitamin from the B9 group. This water-soluble element is crucial to the body’s cell division and growth. Both children and adults are required to take in folic acid for anemia prevention. Moreover, this important vitamin should be taken by pregnant women. Pregnant ...
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• Vitamins to prevent macular degeneration

  
  The C.A.M. Report — Authority: 137
  Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of severe irreversible vision loss in older Americans.Researchers from Harvard Medical School in Boston examined the combined effect of folic acid, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), and cyanocobalamin (vitamin B12) on the risk of AMD.First, the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Your Body’s Warning Signs

  
  NetGuide : Internet Guide — Authority: 126
  Gone are the days of sailors taking lemons on board long voyages to prevent scurvy, a severe long-term shortage of vitamin C, and children developing rickets, caused by vitamin D deficiency. Even in the land of plenty, however, people may experience vitamin and mineral deficiencies in their diets. Some conditions ...
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• FSA recommend state-imposed Folic Acid

  
  Sheepdrove's Weblog — Authority: 108
  Folic acid in your bread, whether you like it or not? The Food Standards Agency (FSA) say yes. The Food Standards Agency, as advised by their Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, has written to Sir Liam Donaldson, the chief medical officer, to confirm their view that it should be mandatory for folic acid to be ...
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• Folic acid in bread given green light

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 974
  Folic acid should be added to bread the food watchdog has ruled dismissing concerns that the supplement is linked to cancer.
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• Fortifying our bread: a heavy handed approach!

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 139
  Online Opinion Australia By Helen Lobato October 15, 2009 On September the 13, 2009, it became mandatory for millers to add folic acid to bread flour in all Australian states and territories. This implementation, which was developed by Food Standards Australia New Zealand, has received very little attention in ...
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• Folic acid blocker medications in pregnancy boost birth defects risk

  
  iHealthBulletin News — Authority: 132
  Using medication that reduces or blocks the actions of folic acid during the first trimester of pregnancy (weeks 1-12), increases the risk that the growing baby will develop abnormalities or birth defects. This conclusion was reached by a team of epidemiologists, pediatricians, clinical pharmacologists, obstetricians ...
  4 weeks ago

• Prenatal use of folic acid and child development

  
  The C.A.M. Report — Authority: 137
  The benefits and risks of folic acid fortification of food – once thought to be clear — are being debated again.In this study from researchers at the University of Iowa, the effects of prenatal use of folic acid (and other dietary supplements) on child development at 3 years of life were evaluated. This summary ...
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• Blood Sugar Metabolism – Let Natural Drugs be Your Controller!

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  What is Diabetes? Diabetes is a disorder of carbohydrate metabolism and refers to Diabetes (siphoning through) Mellitus (sweet). People with this disorder have high level of blood sugar known as hyperglycemia and lose sugar in their urine. Factors contributing to high blood sugar include reduced insulin production, ...
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• Drugs that block folic acid in pregnancy double birth defects risk

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Washington, Oct 14 (ANI): A new study, conducted by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, has warned that taking medications that reduce or block the actions of folic acid during the first trimester of pregnancy increase the risk that the growing baby will develop abnormalities. For the study, the ...
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