http://www.blisstree.com/babylune/iodine/ Adventures in post-partum recovery. Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:49:58 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.blisstree.com/babylune/iodine/comment-page-1/#comment-592 Babylune » The Good News About Vitamins Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:16:42 +0000 http://www.babylune.com/iodine/#comment-592 [...] There is one serious exception to those findings: vitamins for prenatal health. While it has long been known that folic acid helps to prevent neural tube defects, and that iodine helps prevent other kinds of retardation, this new study shows that prenatal vitamins also help prevent cardiovascular and limb defects, cleft palate, oral cleft, congenital hydrocephalus, and urinary tract anomalies too. A report on a study published in the Globe and Mail says that the evidence that taking prenatal vitamins prevents birth defects is so profound that all women of childbearing age should take one a day. [...] [...] There is one serious exception to those findings: vitamins for prenatal health. While it has long been known that folic acid helps to prevent neural tube defects, and that iodine helps prevent other kinds of retardation, this new study shows that prenatal vitamins also help prevent cardiovascular and limb defects, cleft palate, oral cleft, congenital hydrocephalus, and urinary tract anomalies too. A report on a study published in the Globe and Mail says that the evidence that taking prenatal vitamins prevents birth defects is so profound that all women of childbearing age should take one a day. [...]

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