Folic acid might be losing its sheen

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"Folic acid is one of those great public health success stories. In the decade that followed the fortification of cereal grains and other foods, along with educational campaigns, the rate of certain birth defects dropped dramatically.

As studies beginning in the 1980s started showing that folic acid could also help prevent some cancers, it started to seem like a wonder-vitamin.

Now, however, folic acid's heyday may be over. New studies suggest that getting too much folic acid might fuel certain cancers in some people.

And with the vitamin showing up in ready-to-eat cereals, bread, snack bars, multivitamins and more, some health experts fear that it's easy to far exceed the recommended daily intake of 400 micrograms.

There is now an urgent need, experts say, to figure out how much folate is enough but not too much for different segments of the population."

Next on the chopping block, the cure du jour, Vitamin D.

It is so much better to be fit, than fad.

Wise up.