Sentences with phrase «folic acid supplementation on»

Sneed SM, Zane C, Thomas MR.The effects of ascorbic acid, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, and folic acid supplementation on the breast milk and maternal nutritional status of low socioeconomic lactating women.

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A research study conducted on 5502 women by Czeizel and associates suggested that supplementation of 0.8 mg of folic acid in pregnant mothers increase fertility (by increasing the total number of live births and multiple gestations).

Consistent with this, antenatal care focuses on minimizing the risk of harm to the future child, whether by advocating for alcohol abstinence in pregnancy, folic acid supplementation to reduce the chance of neural tube defect, or minimizing teratogenic risks of medications in pregnancy.

Additionally, further research is needed to focus on how folic acid supplementation produces its effect on birth weight and how the dose of supplementation can be optimised in women considered to be at higher risk of SGA, state the authors.

(4) Food fortification was deemed mandatory due to overwhelming evidence for the protective effect of folic acid supplementation before conception and during early pregnancy on the development of neural tube defects (NTD) in newborns.

I would like to see Dr. Greger's and Joseph Gonzales» take on the evidence regarding whether folic acid (vs folate from food) supplementation raises breast (and other?)

Work done by scientists in the early 20th century on identifying individual nutrients in food and developing ways to manufacture them raised hopes that optimal health could be achieved and diseases prevented by adding them to food and providing people with dietary supplements; while there were successes in preventing vitamin deficiencies, and preventing conditions like neural tube defects by supplementation and food fortification with folic acid, no targeted supplementation or fortification strategies to prevent major diseases like cancer or cardiovascular diseases have proved successful.

Links describe why folic acid is important and give advice on dosage, the difficulty of obtaining this amount consistently in the diet, and folic acid and / or multivitamin supplementation.

Importantly, however, the study found no specific additional effect of folic acid + B12 supplementation on reduction of depressive symptoms.