Word: mcg
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FOLATE FOR ALL A new recommendation for women of childbearing age: take a daily supplement of 400 micro-grams of folic acid, a B vitamin, to prevent birth defects. A separate study finds that eating cereal fortified with 400 mcg of folic acid can lower a man's blood levels of homocysteine, an amino acid linked to heart disease...
...Women, be sure to get plenty of the B vitamins folate and B6. Daily intake of 550 mcg of folate plus 3 mg of B6--both higher than the RDA--may cut the risk of heart disease in half. Green leafy veggies and eggs contain folate; for B6, try bananas or beef...
...high. If there were no feeling behind it, this double-jointed vocalizing would be only a freak talent. But Rimes either knows the heartsickness behind country songs or can fake it brilliantly. There is a hint of girlishness in the choice of some lightweight material on the album (MCG/ Curb), and her singing sometimes is closer to the full-throttle glottal attack of Brenda Lee, a precocious stylist of the Cline years, than to Patsy herself. That's O.K., though--Rimes, who turns 14 later this month, is still a work in progress. Her voice already works handsomely...