Just for Men

YOU should eat foods fortified with folic acid as well as foods that contain natural food folate every day because they provide health benefits!

Benefits of folic acid fortified foods and natural folate for men:
  • Folate/folic acid can improve overall health and vitality.
  • Folic acid may reduce the risk for:
    • heart disease.
    • certain cancers (colon).
Is there a teenage girl or woman who is important to you...your wife, fiancée, girlfriend, niece, or sister?

YOU should learn about the benefits that folic acid offers to women too! You should encourage the special women in your life to get 400 micrograms of folic acid every day, even if they are not considering pregnancy. This is because folic acid has health benefits for women including reducing the risk of neural tube defects like spina bifida if they get pregnant unexpectedly.

There are several ways to increase your intake of folic acid/folate in your diet. Click here to find out more.

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Folic Acid Every Day
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Last updated 15 Dec 2000
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