Daily nutritional requirements: Are you meeting them?
- December 13, 2010 3:47 PM |
- By POV
By CBC News
About 40 per cent of Canadians show high levels of folate, while fewer than one per cent were deficient, a new study finds.
Since 1998, some Canadian flour and grains have been fortified with folic acid. The naturally occurring form of the vitamin is folate, which can reduce the prevalence of birth defects such as spina bifida, congenital heart disease and oral clefts.
For the first time in more than three decades, Cynthia Colapinto of Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute in Ottawa and her co-authors looked at the folate status of the general population.
Blood tests of 5,248 Canadians aged six to 79 years showed 40 per cent with high folate concentrations, after taking age, sex and socio-economic status into account.
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