Folic acid is one of a group of vitamins essential for normal growth and for maintenance of normal health. Man is totally unable to synthesize this material and is dependent on…
Abstract
Folic acid is one of a group of vitamins essential for normal growth and for maintenance of normal health. Man is totally unable to synthesize this material and is dependent on dietary sources. The term ‘folate’ is generally used to describe this family of compounds.
In Part 3 of her paper which won the 1975 Van den Berghs & Jurgens Nutrition Award, Sandra Hunt BSc describes some of the effects of nutritional inadequacies among these ethnic…
We now have three good reasons for stressing the use of dark green leafy vegetables (dgv for short):
Anaemia is much more serious and of greater social significance than is generally realised. According to WHO ‘… a great deal of ill‐health, sapping energy and productiveness in…
Abstract
Anaemia is much more serious and of greater social significance than is generally realised. According to WHO ‘… a great deal of ill‐health, sapping energy and productiveness in many countries and causing tragedies in childbirth, is due to anaemia’.