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...study focused exclusively on women. The article does note another study that found that "men who used supplements for more than 10 years had a moderately reduced risk for colon cancer...
...study suggested that a lack of folic acid could increase the chances of abnormalities in either "DNA synthesis or repair," thereby increasing the chances of colon cancer...
...study found that those women whose daily folate intake exceeded 400 micrograms due to continued use of multivitamin supplements for more than 15 years reduced their risk of getting colon cancer by 75 percent...
Those who had taken folate supplements for less than 15 years were also significantly less likely to have reduced colon cancer rates...
...Teresa Fung, nutrition consultant for Harvard Dining Services, said that the food in Harvard's dining halls provide enough folate to protect students from the dangers of colon cancer...