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Folic Acid Defined

A vitamin essential to the production of red blood cells; plays an important role in the growth a developing fetus

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Still no cure for cancer hysteria

Published July 18, 2008, 4:38 pm, Guardian Unlimited

Environment, science & technology: Bad science: This week two food stories went beyond stupid, and managed to give harmful informetion

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Bad science: Still no cure for cancer hysteria

Published July 18, 2008, 4:13 pm, Guardian Unlimited

Ben Goldacre: The newspapers are so profoundly overrun with pseudoscience about food that there's no point in documenting it any longer

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The Challenges of Anemia: Defining It, and Living With It

Published July 18, 2008, 4:08 pm, New York Times

Dr. Allen Nissenson is a professor of medicine and director of the dialysis program for the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Catch colorectal cancer before it starts

Published July 18, 2008, 12:11 am, Erie Times-News

Colorectal cancer --the cancer nobody talked about, even with their doctors, just 10 years ago -- has fast become one of the most recognized forms of cancer.

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WIC program continues to serve low-income women, infants

Published July 17, 2008, 6:39 am, The MidWeek

Forty-four percent of all the babies in Illinois are in the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program, a federal nutrition program disbursed through the state to help at-risk pregnant women, and to protect their babies’ prenatal development and health after birth.

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Alaska newborns at higher risk for defects

Published July 17, 2008, 2:46 am, Anchorage Daily News

Alaska infants are twice as likely to be born with major birth defects as infants in the U.S. as a whole, according to a new study by the state Department of Health and Social Services -- and officials are at a loss to explain why.

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The Epigenetics Of Increasing Weight Through The Generations

Published July 16, 2008, 5:06 am, Medical News Today

Overweight mothers give birth to offspring who become even heavier, resulting in amplification of obesity across generations, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in Houston who found that chemical changes in the ways genes are expressed - a phenomenon called epigenetics - could affect successive generations of mice.

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Gene tags 'fuel obesity epidemic'

Published July 15, 2008, 11:56 pm, BBC News

Womb chemicals of overweight mothers raise the risk of their baby being obese, research suggests.

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How an overweight mother could be making her baby obese

Published July 15, 2008, 7:53 pm, Daily Mail

Women who are overweight before and during pregnancy are "passing on" their obesity to their babies, a study suggests.

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Substitute Your Way To Healthier Eating

Published July 15, 2008, 1:30 pm, CBS News

Dietician Keri Glassman tells how simple changes can pack much more nutritional punch into your day, on The Early Show

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