![]() ![]() âThe more we learn about folic acid, the more itâs clear that giving it to everyone has very real risks,â says folic acid researcher David Smith PhD, as quoted in a Prevention magazine article titled Is Your Breakfast Giving You Cancer? While this effort has resulted in fewer birth defects, the long-term effects for nonpregnant adults have come into question, especially with the significant increases in cancer since the program began as well as the lack of long-term studies by the government. governmentâs folic acid food fortification program, which became mandatory in 1996 âdue to overwhelming evidence for the protective effect of folic acid supplementation before conception and during early pregnancy on the development of neural tube defects in newborns.â (Source) ![]() You may have heard about the folic acid controversy and wondered what it has to do with you. By Theresa Groskopp, CN on in Health News, Nutrition Supplements ![]()
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