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It turns out that women who have a vitamin B12 (folic acid) deficiency early in their pregnancy may have an increased risk of having children with disabling or even fatal neural tube defects, as determined by a study published in the journal Pediatrics. The neural tube is the part of the fetus that will develop into the brain and spinal cord.

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Donald R. Davis, a former research associate with the Biochemical Institute at the University of Texas, Austin, claims the average vegetable found in today's supermarket is anywhere from 5% to 40% lower in minerals (including magnesium, iron, calcium and zinc) than those harvested just 50 years ago. [Eating Your Veggies: Not As Good For You?, (Time)]

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The most recent study (published in the The Archives of Internal Medicine) on multivitamins continue to show that there are no special health benefits.  This eight-year study that included 161,808 post-menopausal women found the pills did nothing to prevent common cancers or heart disease. [Multivitamins May Not Cut Cancer Odds (WebMD)]

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Not everything we eat gets absorbed and used by our body.  Our digestive process destroys and degrades nutrients before our body can use it.  The amount of nutrients that is actually absorbed in our system is called bioavailability.  Understanding how different foods react with one another can help you get more nutrients from your meal.

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It used to be vitamin C that was the cure all vitamin. But it seems nowadays that every time I turn around I hear another story about the superpowers of Vitamin D. Low vitamin D levels has been linked to everything from diabetes to cancer, and a lot of us have low vitamin D levels.  About 41 percent of men and 53 percent of women in the United States have levels of vitamin D that are considered too low. 

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