FDA Vs. Folic Acid

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The FDA versus Folic Acid

 

" Folate prevents colon cancer:

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1998; 129:517-524

 

Folate prevents cardiovascular disease:

JAMA, 1993, Dec 8: 2693-2698 & 2726-2727

 

Folate protects against dna damage:

Proc of the Nat Academy of Sciences, 1997 94(7):3290-5

 

Folate protects against dna damage:

Baillieres Clinical Hematology, 1995, 8(3):461-78

 

Folate protects against birth defects:

Folates and the Fetus. Lancet, Feb 26, 1977, p 462

 

Folate metabolism in pregnancy:

Am J Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1967 99:638-648

 

Folate deficiency & oral contraceptives:

JAMA, 1970 214:105-108, 1970

 

Folate deficiency in mental patients:

British J Psychiatry 113:241-251, 1967

 

The FDA versus Folic Acid

Does agency suppression constitute a scientific endorsement?

January 1999

 

" Does agency suppression constitute a scientific endorsement? "

 

Wonder of wonders could these cut into the pharma game plan?

 

Now one would have thought that the tax supported government bodies

like the FDA, Health Canada, TGA of Australia etc. would be looking

after the interests of their constituents? Well think again. These

regulatory bodies have effectively been corrupted to become unions

to protect the pharmaceutical/medical industry. They abuse the trust

placed in them with a pretense to protect us while all the time

pandering to the very industries they supposes to regulate.

 

" <http://www.stopfda.com/>It's<http://www.stopfda.com/> time to

revolt

 

Today's flawed system of drug approval needs a major overhaul or

Americans will continue to perish while effective therapies exist in

other countries.

 

As more Americans learn that they are not getting the best that

science has to offer, we believe the citizenry will rebel against

the medical establishment, who place their monopolistic profits

ahead over the well-being of the patient. "

 

Chris Gupta

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The FDA argues against folic acid supplementation because the

presence of folic acid in the blood could mask a serious vitamin B12

deficiency. But The Journal of the American Medical Association

(Dec. 18, 1996) noted that folic acid supplements fortified with

vitamin B12 would be a prudent way of gaining the

<http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2003/06/03/orthomolecular_solu

tions_to_heart_disease.htm>cardiovascular

 

benefits of folic acid without risking a B12 deficiency. In

addition, the April 9, 1998, issue of The New England Journal of

Medicine endorses folic acid as a means of reducing the incidence of

heart attack and stroke. Nevertheless, the FDA refuses to accept

that folic acid has any benefit other than preventing a certain type

of birth defect.

 

In fact, it took the FDA more than 30 years to even acknowledge that

folic acid prevents neural tube birth defects. Tens of thousands of

deformed babies have been born because the FDA prohibited claims

that pregnant women should take folic acid. When former Commissioner

David Kessler was confronted with overwhelming evidence that women

of child-bearing age should supplement with folic acid, he responded

in an NBC interview, " The quandary we're in at the Food and Drug

Administration is how to make folic acid available to women of child-

bearing age, but not put it in excessive amounts in the food supply

for other populations such as teenage boys or elderly people. "

 

A newly released study shows just how fatally flawed the FDA's

position is. Data from the famous Nurses' Health Study conducted at

the Harvard Medical School show that long-term supplementation with

folic acid reduces the risk of colon cancer in women by an

astounding 75%. The fact that there are 90,000 women participating

in the study makes this finding especially significant. The authors

explain that folic acid obtained from supplements had a stronger

protective effect against colon cancer than folic acid consumed in

the diet. This study also helps to confirm the work of Dr. Bruce

Ames, the famous molecular biologist who has authored numerous

articles showing that folic acid is extremely effective in reventing

the initial dna mutations that can lead to cancer later in life.

 

The Nurses' Health Study also demonstrates that the degree of

protection against cancer is correlated with how long a dna-

protecting substance (such as folic acid) is consumed. The women who

took more than 400 micrograms of folic acid a day for 15 years

experienced the 75% reduction in colon cancer; short-term

supplementation produced only marginal protection.

 

There now exists a massive body of evidence that supplementation

with folic acid can prevent both cardiovascular disease and cancer,

yet the FDA has proposed rules that would prohibit the American

public from even learning about these benefits. Colon cancer will

kill 47,000 Americans this year. Too bad the FDA didn't allow these

colon cancer victims to learn of folic acid in time.

 

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