Eat RightandTake a Multivitamin

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Abstract
Since the mid-1970s, 25 percent of American adults have regularly consumed a multivitamin containing 400 μg of folic acid. The current evidence suggests that people who take such supplements and their children are healthier. This evidence raises the question of whether physicians and other health care professionals should recommend that all adults take a multivitamin daily.“Folate” is the generic term for compounds that have vitamin activity similar to that of pterolymonoglutamic acid (also called folic acid), the chemical that is added to supplements or fortified foods. Folic acid is synthetic, heat stable, and approximately twice as bioavailable as the . . .