According to the January/February i...

According to the January/February issue of Health, three not at home of four women could avoid colon cancer if they make getting profusion of folic acid a life-long habit. In addition to preventing birth defaults and possibly preventing heart attacks, researchers now believe this B vitamin can help thwart colon cancer.

Beginning in 1980 researchers mailed questionnaires each two years to more than 88000 succors asking about their eating habits and past and not absent use of vitamin supplements. In 1994 researchers determined who had unfolded colon cancer. According to the article, colon cancer is the third principally common cancer in American women The researchers build that nurses with the highest intake of folic acid (ie, at least 400 lag by day) were least likely to have colon cancer.

According to the article, folic acid is available in flourishing leafy vegetables, orange juice, breakfast cereals, and beans; however, alone a small number of foments in the highest folate cluster ingested folic acid through their diet alone. Women who took vitamin add tos daily for at least 15 years had a 75% lower risk of developing colon cancer than women not taking vitamin complements Most multivitamins contain at least 400/[micro]g of folic acid.

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