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...flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Folic acid is one of the more essential B vitamins, especially for women of childbearing age, and a little bit - 100 micrograms a day - goes a long way toward preventing spina bifida and other birth defects. Now a major study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has confirmed what smaller studies had only hinted at: that women who consume large amounts of folate (in the region of 1,000 micrograms a day) have a lower risk of developing...
Folic acid is one of the more essential B vitamins, especially for women of childbearing age, and a little bit--100 micrograms a day--goes a long way toward preventing spina bifida and other birth defects. That's why the U.S. government requires that all grain products be fortified with enough folate to stave off these so-called neural-tube defects...
There's good and bad news on folic acid this year. First the good: a March of Dimes poll showed that women of childbearing age are heeding the advice on folic acid. Taking the supplement cuts rates of neural-tube defects like spina bifida as much as 70%, and the poll showed that 40% of women 18 to 45 are taking their daily dose--an all-time high. Perhaps as a result, rates of two major types of neural-tube defects have dropped 25% since...
Inching forward in the crease as Spina weaved down the ice, the netminder managed to deflect the attempt with his glove, holding his team’s advantage and quashing a potential BC uprising...
Eagles forward Dave Spina skated towards the Crimson net and, faking to his left, shot the puck back across. It glanced off the goalie’s glove, though, and trickled harmlessly into the corner...