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...safe to go back to the henhouse. Eggs are a complete protein and loaded with nutrients and vitamins A, B-12, folic acid and riboflavin--probably the best bargain in the grocery store. But this doesn't mean you should start each day with a mountain of scrambled eggs. Eggs have twice the cholesterol of beef, so three or four a week are plenty...
...edition of Time Magazine (“Inside the Womb”) also constitute a misogynist attempt to scare pregnant college students? If Students for Healthy Babies had produced posters with the same images and captions as HRL but with an added reminder to “Take Folic Acid!” would Cohen have opined? Publicizing scientific facts about when fetuses develop their bodily systems cannot be reasonably construed as “inflammatory.” Equating pictures of developing human fetuses with “a vicious attack on women?...
...Herbert] quadruple boiled all of his food to make sure that all vestiges of folic acid were removed from his diet,” said his colleague, Clive Rosendorff, chief of medicine at the Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center. “Sure enough, he became anemic and quite seriously...
Herbert’s experiment is credited with conclusively proving the link between a deficiency in folate and this type of anemia. And in 1998, four decades later, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration began requiring that folic acid be added to all American food grains...
Subsequent research has shown folic acid helps prevent a number of birth defects, including cleft palate, brain damage and spina bifida...