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...Twenty years ago," says pollster Andrew Kohut, "we had the three As: abortion, amnesty and acid. And on those issues, there were big generational differences...
...Vitamin C helps body fight against colds, may citrus fruits, broccoli lower risks for certain cancers Thiamin important in energy metabolism cereals Riboflavin important in energy production liver, milk Niacin needed by hundreds of enzymes for grain products, meat, poultry energy metabolism Vitamin B6 needed by enzymes for amino acid poultry, fish, grain products metabolism Vitamin B12 important for recycling coenzymes animal products for metabolism Folic Acid essential for DNA formation and nor- liver, leafy vegetables mal cell division Minerals Calcium promotes skeletal growth, involved milk in muscle contraction Phosphorus essential component of bone miner- all protein-rich foods, (milk...
...probably more common than we thought," Willett says. "Birth defects suggest that there is a substantial number of women who don't get enough folic acid...
...acid tongue has landed him in controversy several times. Last July at the U.N. he accused Europe and the U.S. of being more concerned with "the rich man's war" in Bosnia than with the fate of the starving in Somalia. He picked a fight with both Lord Carrington, then the European Community's chief negotiator in the Balkan crisis, and Sir David Hannay, Britain's U.N. ambassador, over the same issue, commenting that it was "maybe because I am a wog" that he had been criticized in the British press...
...latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of researchers from Hungary report that women who consume 0.8 mg of folic acid, a B vitamin, for at least a month before they conceive have a dramatically lower risk of bearing a child with a neural-tube defect. Although the link between folic acid and neural-tube defects has been made before, this landmark study of 4,156 women is the first to show that the malformation can be prevented -- even in women who have no previous history of bearing children with neural- tube defects...