What are the health benefits of folate?
Find out about the health benefits of folate including decreasing risk of birth defects, lowering risk of depression, maintaining a healthy heart and preventing cancer.
January 9, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: birth-defects, decreasing-risk, diet, folate-including, health, healthy-heart, nutrition, nutrition / diet, oncalldietitian.com, the-health
Mutation Of A Key Folic Acid Enzyme Causes Neural Tube Defects In Mice
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered that the lack of a critical enzyme in the folic acid metabolic pathway leads to neural tube birth defects in developing embryos…
January 21, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: austin, birth-defects, critical-enzyme, neural-tube, nutrition, nutritional counseling, pathway-leads, pregnancy / obstetrics, texas, texas-at-austin, the-folic
Even The Sickest Babies Benefit From Breast-Feeding
Pediatric researchers at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia describe a successful program in which nurses helped mothers attain high rates of breast-feeding in very sick babies–newborns with complex birth defects requiring surgery and intensive care. Many of these highly vulnerable newborns immediately experience a paradoxical situation…
October 28, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: attain-high, birth-defects, children, helped-mothers, immediately-experience, requiring-surgery, successful-program, vulnerable-newborns
