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...scientists always agree. "Folic acid is a perfect example," says Rima Apple, a historian at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and author of Vitamania: Vitamins in American Culture. In 1989 the recommended dietary allowance for folic acid was cut from 400 micrograms for all adults to 200 micrograms for men and 180 micrograms for women, because that was the lowest amount that would stave off a nutritional deficiency. At the same time, however, new studies were showing that higher doses of folic acid could prevent crippling birth defects during pregnancy and ward off strokes and heart attacks in older...
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