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Article: FOLIC ACID: THE GREAT PROTECTOR.
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- Health Products Business
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
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Folic acid: it's the quiet vitamin. The one you've hardly ever heard about. And it's certainly no glamour supplement. Yet without this silent, nutritional Goliath, discovered little more than 50 years ago, the human body would swiftly cease to function properly Without folic acid, we could succumb to myriad illnesses and diseases. Unlike nutrients whose intake is essential in milligrams, mere micrograms of this unassuming nutritional all-star make the difference between wellness and poor health.
Folic acid deficiency is the most common vitamin deficiency in many populations throughout the world, causing outward symptoms of apathy, depression, anxiety, fatigue, ...