The FDA versus Folic Acid

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July 14, 2003

The FDA versus Folic AcidControl tactics

 

" 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

and Health Canada, 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.

 

" It's 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

 

 

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

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 preventing 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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