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Alcohol Folic Acid Breast Cancer
Folic acid is one of the B-complex
Folic acid, long unheralded even by health food enthusiasts, is now in the nutritional limelight. A series of recent studies suggest that this B vitamin may be a major player in warding off heart attacks, strokes, and certain common cancers. Often called folacin or folate (its biologically active form), it also is well established as critically important in the prevention of birth defects of the brain and spinal cord, called neural tube defects, if...
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Folic Acid
Source: Breastcancer.org
Also known as: B-complex vitamin, folacin, folate. Potential uses: Folate is the generic term for B-complex vitamin. Folic acid is the manufactured... Read more »
Folic acid supplements may increase prostate cancer risk
Men who take a folic acid supplement may be three times more likely to develop prostate cancer than men who don't take the vitamin, a new study has... Read more »
All alcohol boosts breast cancer risk
Three or more drinks a day boosts a woman's risk for breast cancer by 30 percent, new research suggests. And researchers say it doesn't matter which... Read more »
Big study links breast cancer to alcohol
A large, national study has again linked alcohol to breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Researchers analyzed data from over 184,000 women--the... Read more »
Study finds how alcohol boosts breast cancer risk
Drinking alcohol is a known risk factor for breast cancer in women, and a new study has found the reason. Alcohol appears to stimulate the growth and... Read more »
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