Vitamin B9 (folic acid): benefits, deficiency and overdose
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Autism: folic acid could help children communicate better
© ThinkstockIn France, 650,000 people suffer from autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Experts estimate that 1 in 100 babies are born ...
Read moreAutism: folic acid may help children communicate better
© ThinkstockIn France, 650,000 people suffer from autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Experts estimate that 1 in 100 babies are born ...
Read moreFolic acid to preserve intellectual faculties?
January 31, 2007 - Folic acid (vitamin B9) may help counter the cognitive decline associated with aging. A team of ...
Read moreThe benefits and dangers of folic acid
April 18, 2003 - Folic acid could fight bladder cancer and prevent Down syndrome, but it could also be dangerous ...
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Folic acid in late pregnancy would increase the risk of childhood allergies
© ThinkstockTHE'folic acid, the vitamin B9, is widely used to prevent a birth defect, spina bifida and to promote the ...
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Why is folic acid so expensive at the pharmacy?
I am a 64 year old woman. Because of rheumatism I take methotrexate (2.5 mg). Also, I have to take ...
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Vitamin B11 Most people have heard of folic acid (also called vitamin B11). But did you know that it is ...
Read moreFolic acid under surveillance
August 28, 2009 - Could it be that folic acid - which is fortified in white flour, cornmeal and pasta ...
Read moreFolic acid for future dads?
March 25, 2008 - Increased Intake of Folic Acid (Vitamin B9) in Men May Reduce Sperm Chromosomal Abnormalities, US Study ...
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Okra: source of folic acid
Good for the blood Okra is a welcome guest in Moroccan, Indian and Creole cuisine. We rarely see this vegetable ...
Read moreFolic acid for Alzheimer’s disease?
August 29, 2005 - According to the results of a recent epidemiological study1, a folic acid intake corresponding to the ...
Read moreFolic acid: European women impervious to awareness campaigns
March 15, 2005 - Since the 1990s, it has been clearly shown that folic acid (vitamin B9) can help reduce ...
Read moreFolic acid is believed to reduce hypertension in women
November 11, 2004 - In young women, a high intake of vitamin B9 in the diet would reduce the risk ...
Read moreFolic acid, also against cleft lip
November 7, 2003 - Some women may reduce their risk of giving birth to a baby with a cleft lip ...
Read moreFolic acid, also against cancer?
September 26, 2003 - Medicine has long known that folic acid protects the fetus against the risk of neural tube ...
Read moreDepression, migraine and folic acid
July 11, 2003 - A close, but still poorly understood, connection is said to unite migraines and depression, to the ...
Read moreFolic acid would prevent leukemia
May 14, 2003 - In addition to reducing neural tube defects in the fetus, folic acid is also believed to ...
Read moreVitamin B9 (folic acid) reduces the risk of heart disease
January 2, 2000 - Two scientific studies published a few months apart have just shown that folic acid (vitamin B9) ...
Read moreFolic acid supplementation is a wise prevention in early pregnancy
November 16, 1999 - A supplement of 0.4 mg of folic acid (vitamin B9) per day during the month before ...
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