By Mark Hyman, MD
'Anyone trying to prevent heart disease and cancer is probably thoroughly confused by competing research and news reports about folic acid. In some studies it reduces the risk of cancer(i) and in others it seems to increase the risk.(ii)
The media grab attention with scary headlines like the recent Prevention article, “Is Your Breakfast Giving You Cancer” and the confused consumer of healthy food and vitamin supplements goes back to burgers and fries and throws their supplements in the trash.
Unfortunately, science is never black and white and confusion is easy to come by -- even for trained scientists.(iii) The fortification of our food supply with folic acid in 1998 reduced spina bifida birth defects by 19%. A good thing. But by some estimates it may have caused an additional 15,000 cancers deaths a year. Ooops. Now what?'
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