Sentences with phrase «helps prevent birth defects»

As you may know folate helps prevent birth defects.

They're chock full of just the nutrition pregnant women need, including folic acid, a vitamin that helps prevent birth defects.

The work may also have practical implications: Proper amounts of vitamin A during key stages of pregnancy might help prevent some birth defects, Helms notes.

Visit CDC's Folic Acid website for information and free materials on how folic acid can help prevent birth defects.

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These vitamins and minerals help ensure the baby's and mother's health as well as prevent some types of birth defects.

Today we're joined by Robert Felix, he is a Teratogen Information Specialist for MotherToBaby California who provides education and research to help expecting mothers prevent birth defects.

Taking folic acid helps prevent your baby developing birth defects, such as spina bifida.

Other volunteer activities included service with the March of Dimes, helping to raise thousands for the nonprofit organization which works to improve the lives of babies by preventing birth defects.

Another B vitamin, folate (folic acid), helps the body form red blood cells and is critical for preventing birth defects in babies.

Folate makes new DNA and thus helps make new cells, helps prevent neural tube defects (NTDs), is required for cell division, and increases birth weight (source, source, source, and source).

Some of which are helping our bodies form new cells, helping prevent certain birth defects and aiding biological functions.

Vitamin B supplements have been shown to help treat or prevent several diseases and health conditions, including kidney disease, migraines, cataracts, heart disease, birth defects and several types of cancer.

Most of us know folic acid can help prevent certain birth defects.

Necessary to produce the genetic material of cells; essential in first 3 months of pregnancy for preventing birth defects; helps in red blood cell formation; protects against heart disease.

Some types of foods have folic acid added to them to help prevent spina bifida and related birth defects.

Before pregnancy and during pregnancy, you need 400 micrograms of folic acid daily to help prevent major birth defects of the fetal brain and spine called neural tube defects.