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Diet and Nutrition
Lack of Folic Acid Continues to Cause Preventable Birth Defects
November 12th, 2000
Despite clear-cut evidence that folic acid supplementation prevents two severe birth defects, not enough is being done to educate women and to fortify the American diet, declared birth defects authorities in a commentary in the October 2000 issue of the journal Pediatrics. "Surely one of the greatest, global public health failures of our time is that we continue to have large numbers of children live their lives with permanent disabilities and/or die early because of birth defects that could have been prevented if effective folic acid programs had been instituted," the researchers stated. The authors include Godfrey P. Oakley, Jr., MD,...
Source: Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA (2000-11-12)
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