Folic Acid to Prevent Birth Defects
Thousands of Utah women are getting free bottles of multivitamins in the hopes that none of their future children will develop deadly but preventable neural tube defects.
The 26,000 bottles of vitamins, paid for by a federal grant and through a private donation by the group Vitamin Angels, contain 400 micrograms of folic acid. The B vitamin helps a fetal neural tube properly develop into the brain and spinal cord, according to the March of Dimes.
While the importance of folic acid was common knowledge a few years ago, fewer women know it now, according to the Utah Department of Health. Read More…
Date: Jan 5, 2010
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