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Maternal Folic Acid May Benefit Baby’s Brain Health
January 1st, 2013A study published in Cancer, Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention found that mothers who took folic acid supplements during their pregnancy reduced the likelihood of childhood tumors by 45 percent.
While some foods are enriched with folic acid, more research shows that the body absorbs the synthetic version of the vitamin much better than the natural version.
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Focus On: Folate
June 1st, 2012WHAT IT IS: Folate is a type of water-soluble B vitamin (vitamin B9) that is often found in food naturally, and in vitamin-fortified foods. It is sometimes called folic acid or folacin.
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Find out what folate is and how it functions within the body.Calm Restless Legs
March 1st, 2008The English physician who first described restless legs syndrome (RLS) in 1683 wrote of “leapings and contractions of the tendons” so intense his patients were “no more able to sleep than if they were in a place of greatest torture.” Yet throughout the 1800s, RLS sufferers who complained of its hallmark “creepy crawly” or “itchy, burning” sensatio
Get a step ahead of this common condition.
