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All That Folic Acid May Give You Cancer

Fortified cereals, breads, vitamins could overwhelm your liver

By Wesley Oliver,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 29, 2009 6:53 PM CDT

(Newser) – Health experts once trumpeted folic acid, but now warn against taking too much of a good thing, the Economist reports. For more than 10 years, aspiring mothers have been told to down double the recommended dose with vitamin pills, and some countries have added folic...   Read full story »

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