UK's FSA backs folic acid in flour, curbs on food
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Britain's Food Standards Agency board on Thursday gave the go-ahead for plans to add folic acid to foods in a bid to cut birth defects and said levels should be controlled in some products to prevent over-consumption.
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London, Sept. 13: People should drastically reduce their salt consumption because it leads to high blood pressure, heart disease and strokes, the UKâs Food Standards Agency (FSA) warned today.
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Folate, a vitamin already known for its power to prevent birth defects, also appears to reduce the risk of high blood pressure for women both young and old.
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Increasing a mother's intake of folic acid by adding the vitamin to food supplies has been shown to cut the risk of having a baby with neural tube defects, a birth defect in which the spine doesn't fuse properly. However, new research indicates that this benefit is much weaker in overweight and obese women.
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British scientists called on Friday for more research into the possibility that it is harmful for women to take folic acid supplements throughout pregnancy.
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MOTHERS-TO-BE are today warned a supplement essential for healthy babies could double their risk of breast cancer. Early results from a scientific study suggest the long-term affects of women taking folic
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Supplementing foods like bread with folic acid could cut the risks of a stroke by a fifth, a study suggests.
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High doses of folic acid do not prevent precancerous colon polyps in people prone to them and may actually increase the risk of developing the growths, a new study finds.
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NEW YORK  - Daily use of folic acid supplements does not prevent colon adenomas in patients with a history of these growths, which usually develop into cancer over time, according to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Young women who consume folic acid, a synthetic form of folate, aB vitamin, can lower their risk of developing high blood pressure by a third, according to a new study.
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By E.J. Mundell, HealthDay Reporter    HealthDayNews -- The new federal dietary formula may offer sweet rewards for following its guidelines, an idea that's not settling well with nutritionists...
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More U.S. women are taking daily supplements of folic acid, a B vitamin crucial to prevent some major birth defects, but the number remains too low, federal health officials said on Thursday.
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Imposing a tax on unhealthy foods could prevent more than 3,000 deaths a year in the UK, researchers said today.
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NEW YORK DEC 09, 2004  - Researchers in the UK report a non-significantly increased risk of breast cancer among women who, in the 1960s, took folate supplements while pregnant, according to an article in the December 11th issue of the
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Coating fats with dietary fiber may prevent their digestion.
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Most women are aware that  getting enough folic acid during pregnancy can help prevent  some birth defects, but many don&#39;t know that they should be  taking the vitamin before they become pregnant, a new survey  shows.
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Upping the daily intake of folate has been widely promoted in recent years to reduce women&#39;s risk of having a baby with spina bifida, but it also seems to have another benefit.