Tag: Folic Acid

Most nutritious vegetables to be included in your diet

London: Pumpkins contain essential nutrients such as folic acid, manganese, vitamin C and zinc while spinach contains antioxidants that combat free radicals. There are other vegetables too that have higher value of nutrition. Frida Harju, In-House Nutritionist at the health app Lifesum, listed down the nutritious vegetables that everyone should include in their diet, reports […]

  • Tuesday, 06 July 2021
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Google honours Lucy Wills who gave birth to folic acid

New Delhi: Google on Friday honoured English haematologist Lucy Wills whose research on anaemia in pregnant women in Mumbai in 1928 led to the discovery of folic acid that helps prevent birth defects in babies. She conducted seminal work in India in the late 1920s and early 1930s on macrocytic anaemia during pregnancy. Her observations during […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
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