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Folate, folic…what’s the difference?  It’s more than you think.

Since the national agency in charge of our health awareness says its National Folic Acid Week, I’d like to take a few minutes to tell you why you should not take extra folic acid.   The folates are water soluble B vitamins known collectively as ‘B9’.  The word folate comes from the Latin ‘folium’, because the natural forms were first found in…