| In a discussion of the importance vitamin B, folic acid is | | | | acid, so it was initially given in yeast extract. Later in |
| nearly always included. Not that vitamin B refers to just | | | | nineteen forty one it was extracted from spinach. |
| one vitamin--there are actually many. But at least | | | | You can also find folic acid in othere green leafy |
| when vitamins B6 and B12 are involved folic acid is | | | | veggies, dry beans, peas, and fruits. Currently many |
| included. This is because folic acid is a B vitamin. | | | | governments fortify their white flour with folates and |
| The B vitamins are a set of vitamins that when | | | | you can often find cereal with enough folic acid in it to |
| originally discovered were all mistaken to be one | | | | meet your daily requirment. |
| vitamin and that vitamin was named vitamin B. That's | | | | Speaking of daily requirement, the recommended daily |
| why you will notice that there are so many different | | | | requirement for folic acid is four hundred micrograms. If |
| vitamins running around these days with 'vitamin B' as | | | | you are pregnant, could become pregnant or lactating |
| part of their label. | | | | take between six hundred and eight hundred |
| Today the B vitamins are known as a complex of | | | | micrograms daily. |
| vitamins that all interact with each other and are | | | | Folic acid is necessary for the replication and |
| commonly found in the same foods. When buying a | | | | maintenance of DNA and RNA. It helps to prevent |
| vitamin B complex in the store it will contain many | | | | changes in your DNA that can lead to cancer and its |
| different vitamins that go under the 'B vitamin' label. All | | | | needed for proper growth and to make red blood cells. |
| in all there are eight B vitamins that we humans use | | | | Thus it is very important for the pregnant and those |
| and among them is folic acid. There are other B | | | | who may become pregnant in order to prevent birth |
| vitamins that people don't use but you needn't worry | | | | defects. |
| about them. | | | | A deficiency of folic acid may present itself with |
| You may find folic acid referred to as a folate, Vitamin | | | | Diarhhea, poor apetite, weakness, sore tongue, |
| B-9, Vitamin M and Vitamin B-c. These are all the | | | | headaches, heart palpitations, and neurological |
| same vitamin running around under varying | | | | problems. |
| pseudonyms. Also you may find it interesting to know | | | | In general B vitamins help to keep up your metabolism, |
| that since the discovery that vitamin B was really so | | | | help you maintain healthy skin and muscle tone. They |
| many different vitamins many of them have been | | | | benefit your immune system and nervous system. |
| renamed, so the eight that we have today aren't all of | | | | They also help with cell growth and can fight stress, |
| the original B vitamins. Some have had legal name | | | | depression, and cardiovascular disease. |
| changes. | | | | Remember your body doesn't store B vitamins well. |
| Folic acid was found in the nineteen thirties to help | | | | You must get them daily but luckily folic acid and other |
| prevent anemia in many pregnant women. Of course | | | | B vitamins are present in many foods. |
| back then there wasn't a synthesized form of folic | | | | |