{"id":204,"date":"2005-08-09T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2005-08-09T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-09T22:18:00","slug":"use-of-folic-acid-increases-birth-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/09\/use-of-folic-acid-increases-birth-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Of Folic Acid Increases Birth Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>As reported in the British Journal of Nutrition, the research team discovered a strong link between low levels of folic acid in the women&#8217;s blood and a correspondingly low birth weight in their newborn. It was noted that for each increasing unit of folic acid accounted for in the blood samples, the child&#8217;s birth weight also increased by 14%.<\/p>\n<p>Smoking has been known to inhibit the developing fetus for some time now. The Newcastle study has shown a strong link between women smokers and low folate levels. Researchers presume smoking inhibits the body&#8217;s ability to metabolize the vitamin completely, thus leading to a potentially underweight baby.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydna.com\/resources\/news\/200508\/news_20050808_folic.html\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in the British Journal of Nutrition, the research team discovered a strong link between low levels of folic acid in the women&#8217;s blood and a correspondingly low birth weight in their newborn.&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}