Folic acid is one of the more essential B vitamins, especially for women of childbearing age, and a little bit100 micrograms a daygoes a long way toward preventing spina bifida and other birth defects. Now a major study published in the
Journal of the American Medical Association
has confirmed what smaller studies had only hinted at: that women who consume large amounts of folate (in the region of 1,000 micrograms a day) have a lower risk of developing hypertensionfor younger women, it's significantly lower.
The report, part of the ongoing Nurses' Health Study, tracked the folate intake of...
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