Folic acid may prevent Cancer

A new report claimed folic acid could prevent cancer – and even halt its growth (HealthDay News, 12 June). While folic acid is more commonly known as the nutrient that can help prevent birth defects, new research suggests that folic acid supplements may also help prevent cancer of the larynx.
In a study of people with precancerous lesions called leukoplakia, Italian researchers found the lesions disappeared in 28% of participants, and 44% experienced at least a partial shrinking of their lesions. All of the study participants took 5mg of folic acid three times a day for six months. Results of the study appeared in the July 15 issue of the journal Cancer.

Nutrition experts believe this early discovery could be vital in helping to understand how to prevent people at risk of cancer from developing the disease. Simply supplementing your diet with folic acid – either on its own or as part of a multi-vitamin product such as G&G's Mega 2000 – can reduce the risk of cancer immediately, according to this latest research.

Folic acid is named after folate, which comes from folium, Latin for leaf. Seventy years ago Dr Lucy Wills found that folate (folic acid) prevented anaemia during pregnancy. Experts used yeast extract to get folate, but by the 1940s they had begun to extract it from spinach. Scientists now know it is found in Brussels sprouts, dried beans, oranges, bananas, nuts, fish, eggs and Marmite. It is vital to forming new cells by creating DNA and helps the body make homocysteine, to reduce the risk of heart disease. Pregnant women take 4mg a day to cut the risk of children being born with spina bifida.
Folic Acid is available from G&G at £6.95 for 100 capsules, 1000mcg (Code G0619). Or take a good multi-vitamin & mineral product such as G&G's Mega 2000  to meet your daily requirement of folic acid and all the other essential vitamins & minerals!

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