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Assessment of mineral intake in the diets of Polish postmenopausal women in relation to their BMI-the RAC-OST-POL study : Mineral intake in relation to BMI.

BACKGROUND:The diets of postmenopausal women in Western countries tend to be deficient in minerals, even if the energy value is...

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Contribution of Dietary Supplements to Nutritional Adequacy in Race/Ethnic Population Subgroups in the United States.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that nutritional deficiencies in the U.S. population vary by age,...

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Increased Diet Quality is Associated with Long-Term Reduction of Abdominal and Pericardial Fat.

OBJECTIVE:This study examined the longitudinal associations between genetic risk, change in diet quality, and change in visceral adipose tissue (ΔVAT),...

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Cognitive impairment in folate-deficient rats corresponds to depleted brain phosphatidylcholine and is prevented by dietary methionine without lowering plasma homocysteine.

Poor folate status is associated with cognitive decline and dementia in older adults. Although impaired brain methylation activity and homocysteine...

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Enhancement of recovery from mental illness with l-methylfolate supplementation.

People suffering from depression, schizophrenia, and dementia often have measurably lower levels of serum folate compared to people not experiencing...

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L-methylfolate: a vitamin for your monoamines.

Synthesis of the monoamine neurotransmitters serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine is regulated by L-methylfolate, a derivate of the vitamin folate.Copyright 2008...

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Folic acid supplementation dysregulates gene expression in lymphoblastoid cells--implications in nutrition.

For over a decade, folic acid (FA) supplementation has been widely prescribed to pregnant women to prevent neural tube closure...

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Folic acid supplementation, dietary folate intake during pregnancy and risk for spontaneous preterm delivery: a prospective observational cohort study.

BACKGROUND:Health authorities in numerous countries recommend periconceptional folic acid supplementation to prevent neural tube defects. The objective of this study...

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Verbal abilities in children of mothers with epilepsy: Association to maternal folate status.

OBJECTIVE:To examine the effect of maternal folic acid supplementation and maternal plasma folate and antiepileptic drug (AED) concentrations on language...

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