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The Nutritional Origin of the Term "Red Neck" and Other ...
Natural News.com, AZ - Jul 7, 2008
In America, the term 'redneck' actually comes from a vitamin B deficiency that causes heightened susceptibility to sunburns. Interestingly, most Americans ...
Eating for a healthy pregnancy
Portsmouth Herald News, NH - Jul 6, 2008
Good maternal health can reduce the risk of birth defects, poor growth of the unborn baby, and development of chronic health problems. ...
Taking Vitamins Based on Your Genome
MIT Technology Review, MA - Jul 1, 2008
By Emily Singer Newly discovered genetic variations can impair an enzyme whose malfunction has been linked to birth defects and heart disease--but added ...
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(NaturalNews) Women who are deficient in vitamin B before they conceive may be more likely to give birth to obese and hypertense babies, according to a ...
Fertility check
Allentown Morning Call, PA - Jul 1, 2008
In a study using new technology to label sperm DNA, men who ate little folate, a B-vitamin abundant in orange juice and green veggies, had more sperm with ...
Gum that's good for you
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Plus, it's diabetic-friendly, gluten-free, increases absorption of Vitamin B and calcium, and contains 40% fewer calories than ordinary sugar, he added. ...
New use for vitamins revealed
The Press Association - Jun 22, 2008
The effect of "tuning up" MTHFR in humans is unclear, but folate is already known to protect against birth defects and may also guard against heart disease ...
Strawberries - Fruit With Anti-Aging Super Powers
Imperial Valley News, CA - Jul 4, 2008
... for vitamin C. Additionally, strawberries are very low in sugar and are a source of fiber, potassium and vitamin B, which can prevent birth defects and ...
Where To Draw the Line With Embryo Selection?
Slashdot - Jun 27, 2008
I have a birth defect as well and I don't believe that life starts at conception. In any case, I am not the woman either. If your mother could have chosen a ...
Spina Bifida
Edmonton Journal, Canada - Jun 10, 2008
... shown again and again that women who have low levels of folic acid (a B vitamin) are more likely to give birth to children with neural tube defects. ...
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Folate, vitamin B12 and homocysteine in relation to birth defects and pregnancy outcome -
H Refsum - British Journal of Nutrition, 2007 - Cambridge Univ Press
... al. 1999). Notably, the harmful effect of vitamin B12 deficiency is not
confined to birth defects and pregnancy complications. The ...

… in Methionine Synthase Reductase Combined with Low Cobalamin (Vitamin B12) Increases Risk for Spina … -
A Wilson, R Platt, Q Wu, D Leclerc, B Christensen, … - Molecular Genetics and Metabolism, 1999 - Elsevier
... This study provides the first genetic link between vitamin B 12 deficiency and NTDs
and sup- ports the multifactorial origins of these common birth defects. ...

Folate and vitamin B12 -
JM Scott - Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 2007 - Cambridge Univ Press
... B 12 is the best stored of all vitamins, with enough ... desirable effect of reducing
neural-tube defects (NTD) and ... anaemia, even a modest reduction in vitamin B 12 ...

Maternal hyperhomocysteinemia: a risk factor for neural-tube defects? -
RP Steegers-Theunissen, GH Boers, FJ Trijbels, JD … - Metabolism, 1994 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... which may derive from abnormalities of metabolism of folate, vitamin B12, and vitamin
B6 ... We studied nonpregnant women, 41 of whom had given birth to infants ...

… fetal plasma homocysteine concentrations at birth: The influence of folate, vitamin B12, and the 5, … -
AM Molloy, JL Mills, J McPartlin, PN Kirke, JM … - American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2002 - pt.wkhealth.com
... with the fetal and maternal vitamin B 12 ... adverse pregnancy effects including birth
defects, preeclampsia, placental ... spontaneous abortion, low birth weight, and ...

Vitamin B12 deficiency in children and adolescents. -
SA Rasmussen, PM Fernhoff, KS Scanlon - J Pediatr, 2001 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... Vitamin B12 deficiency in children and adolescents. Rasmussen SA, Fernhoff PM, Scanlon
KS. Division of Birth Defects, Child Development, and Disability and ...

Folic Acid and the Prevention of Birth Defects -
CE Butterworth Jr, A Bendich - Annual Reviews in Nutrition, 1996 - Annual Reviews
... FOLIC ACID AND THE PREVENTION OF BIRTH DEFECTS CE Butterworth, Jr. ... KEY WORDS:
multivitamins, periconceptional, vitamin B12. homocyst(e)ine, folate ABSTRACT ...

The use of folic acid for the prevention of neural tube defects and other congenital anomalies
RD Wilson, G Davies, V Desilets? - J Obstet Gynaecol Can, 2003 - grande.nal.usda.gov
... to risk of excessive intake of other vitamins such as ... 7. Signs or symptoms of vitamin
B12 deficiency should ... increased risk for congenital birth defects (ie, NTD ...

Preventing Coronary Heart Disease B Vitamins and Homocysteine -
GS Omenn, SAA Beresford, AG Motulsky - Circulation, 1998 - Am Heart Assoc
... questions remain regarding the relationship of folate, vitamin B12, and vitamin
B6 to ... be one of the most important steps to prevent serious birth defects. ...

Folate, Vitamin B12, Homocysteine, and the MTHFR 677C-> T Polymorphism in Anxiety and Depression: … -
I Bjelland, GS Tell, SE Vollset, H Refsum, PM … - Archives of General Psychiatry, 2003 - Am Med Assoc
... HOMOCYSTEINE and the vitamins involved in 1-carbon ... functioning, 4-5 and birth defects
and pregnancy ... Hcy, homocysteine; Met, methionine; B12, vitamin B 12 ; MS ...

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Vitamin B12 may also prevent birth defects

Mothers with low levels of vitamin B12 in their blood may be at increased risk of having a child with the birth defect spina bifida, Dutch researchers report.

 
Women are currently recommended to consume certain amounts of folic acid to reduce the risk of spina bifida and other birth defects, and in countries that have mandated folic acid fortification of flour, prevalence of neural-tube defects has been halved, with a similar benefit on incidence of the deadly childhood cancer neuroblastoma.

But most countries have not introduced such a policy and each year about 3 per cent of all new births around the world are affected with major structural birth defects, the biggest cause of infant mortality and disabilities among children in industrialized countries.

The new findings suggest that pregnant women should also increase their levels of vitamin B12 to prevent some of these birth defects.

Writing in the July issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (vol 191, issue 1, pp11-17), scientists from the University Medical Center Nijmegen said they measured vitamin B12 levels in blood samples from 45 mothers and their children with spina bifida and from 83 mothers and their healthy children.

Mothers of children with spina bifida had vitamin B12 levels that were 21 percent lower than those of other mothers. With the lowest levels, the risk of spina bifida was increased more than threefold.

 
 
 
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