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Health & Wellness News From Byron J. Richards
Folic Acid Reduces the Risk of a First Stroke by Twenty Five PercentSunday, June 03, 2007 - Byron J. Richards, CCNA study that is sure to irritate the Big Pharma drug-pushing cartel was published by The Lancet in their June 2, 2007 issue. Despite pushing over 20 billion dollars worth of statin drugs each year down the throats of Americans for prevention of heart disease, when in fact there is no statistical evidence that a statin drug can prevent a first stoke at all, it now comes to pass that a simple B vitamin can do the job of stroke prevention far more effectively. This new study lends support to another study published last month showing that folic acid could dramatically decrease the thickening of the coratid artery over a two-year period. In the current study researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago evaluated eight randomized trials involving folic acid and stroke. Lead researcher, Professor Xiaobin Wang, concluded “Our findings indicate that folic acid supplementation can effectively reduce the risk of stroke in primary prevention.” Those consistently taking folic acid for a three year period and those who had not yet had a first stroke (primary prevention) experienced the greatest benefit (25% risk reduction). It took 10 years for the FDA to allow a claim for folic acid to prevent neural tube defects. The only reason the FDA approved the claim is that Congress threatened to haul in the head of the FDA and explain the FDA’s denial of the scientific facts to mothers whose babies needlessly had these serious medical problems – all because the FDA didn’t want to promote a safe and effective vitamin. Here we go again – folic acid is now competing with billions of dollars in dubious cardiovascular drug sales - will we wait another 10 years before the public is officially informed? Related Entries: Men Need Moderate-to-Heavy Exercise for Stroke PreventionFolic Acid and Vitamin D Help Allergies and Asthma Folic Acid Supplements Reduce Breast Cancer Risk ### Supplements that contain B Vitamin Supplements that contain Folic Acid Other Health News
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