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Posted on 03/30/2026 1:38:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Fifteen years after she lost her first baby to a rare and devastating birth defect, Andrea Lopez takes comfort in knowing that other Latina mothers might finally avoid the same pain. n January, California became the first state to require food makers to add folic acid, a crucial vitamin, to corn masa flour used to make tortillas and other traditional foods widely used in her community.
It’s a long-delayed move aimed at reducing Hispanic infants’ disproportionately high rates of serious conditions called neural tube defects, which claimed Lopez’s son, Gabriel Cude, when he was 10 days old. “It’s such a small effort for such a tremendous impact,” said Lopez, 44, who lives in Bakersfield and is now a lawyer with two young daughters. “There is very little that I wouldn’t do to spare anybody this heartache.”
A similar law takes effect in Alabama in June, and legislation is pending or being considered in Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma and Oregon. Four more states — Texas, Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania — have expressed “active interest” in the issue, according to the Food Fortification Initiative, an advocacy group that focuses on addressing micronutrient deficiencies.
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We no longer believe in individual responsibility.
Yes, but in today's world we are not as ignorant as we were in the "dark ages." Now we know everyone can get pregnant - women and men.
I think they want it in women who potentially could get pregnant. Some women don’t realize they are pregnant in a timely manner.
A blood test will tell the story.
I look at ingredients in most grocery stores...yuck...there are sooo many. I am making some sour dough starter so I can make my own tortillas. Friend of ours family is making/selling 4-5 ingredient tortilla...but it is pretty tasteless.
Wow... California didn’t have anything better for laws? Stay away from my food...
A lot of common health problems have been alleviated by strategically adding nutrients to food. I would not dismiss it out of hand, especially considering the seriousness of this condition.
If you look at ingredients on pasta sold in USA there are a bunch of vitamins (Folic acid, Niacin, Riboflavin, etc) added that you would never see in Italy. Italian law requires dried pasta must be made with only two components: Durum wheat semolina and water. And that's what I always buy.
They'll probably tinker with Fish and Chips next because some fat Brits are lacking something.
When I became pregnant with my first son in 1966, my obstetrician prescribed folic acid for me.
Everyone I’ve talked to says you feel much better after eating pasta in Italy. [That may also be due to the breeding we’ve done with wheat here]
Are you talking about chickpeas? That's a vegetable with a one-word name, and it has nothing to do with poultry.
Just another scam by the communists to assure voter replenishment...
Now you’re just being absurd. Excess water soluble vitamins are simply excreted through the kidneys.
So because some people are just stupid enough no to know that folic acid is needed for pregnant women and can be bought almost any where it will NOW be put in to corn tortillas to help those to stupid to know.
This will make the rest of us deal with possible folic acid (which is an artificial form of folate, a B vitamin.) side affects.
Will there be special non folic acid laced products for the rest of us????
I can see this affecting Mexican restaurants, taco stands and taco trucks.
And oddly I don’t remember anything like this being done for poor dumb white folks. I seem to recall poor people from the south eating balls of red Georgia clay when pregnant. What was done about that?
To those of Mexican descent, Latinos; how does it feel to be thought of by the government as being that stupid?
This just another fringe money grab and whit what we have seen in the last year most likely some kind of scam. Theft and fraud. Follow the money!
Exactly. Now the rest of us are responsible for all latinas going out of their way to eat a trash diet.
You get my drift. 50 pounds of dried beans for less than $40. Soaked and cooked, each pound equals three pounds.
Interestingly, I just read an article by renowned cancer doc, Dr Paul Marik ...
Here’s an excerpt, regarding Folic Acid ...
For the past three decades, we have quietly conducted one of the largest, real‑world experiments in supplement pharmacology in human history: mandatory folic acid fortification, widespread high‑dose B‑vitamin use, and aggressive marketing of antioxidant “immune support” to people at risk for or living with cancer. Large randomized trials and cohort studies now suggest that, depending on dose, timing, and tumor context, some of these same agents can increase cancer incidence, accelerate progression, or blunt the effects of chemotherapy and radiation.
Folate, B12, vitamin E, selenium, NAC, CoQ10, and other antioxidant supplements occupy a strange space in oncology—they are simultaneously essential for normal physiology and plausibly harmful when layered indiscriminately on top of modern cancer care. This post matters because it steps back from simplistic “pro‑” or “anti‑supplement” narratives and instead asks the harder question that actually affects patient outcomes: when do these compounds function as allies for normal tissue, and when do they become covert allies for the tumor instead?
This post provides a review for patients anad clinicians alike on how to approach vitamins and antioxidants in patients with cancer.
Folic Acid
Folic acid (the synthetic form of folate) also known as Vitamin B9 is a water-soluble B vitamin found in leafy greens, legumes and cereals. In the US folate supplementation of flour is mandated. Even in well-nourished Western societies, routine supplementation of pregnant women with folate significantly reduces the risk of neural tube defects. Observational studies in the 1980 s suggested that a low-folate diet increased the risk of heart disease and colorectal cancer.(1) The enthusiasm for vitamin B supplementation led to studies to determine if it could reduce these diseases. Unfortunately, these studies proved harmful (high dose folate).
Folic acid has a dual relationship with cancer: adequate folate seems to help prevent cancer initiation, but high-dose folic acid may accelerate growth of existing pre‑cancerous or cancer cells.(2) This is one of the clearest examples in nutrition where dose, form, and timing fundamentally change biological effect.
I Use chick peas in salads all the time....along with some kind of cheese, eggs, cucumbers, etc. Sometimes...black beans. I rinse the beans to get rid of some of the salt.
How raciss ... they’re insinuating that hispanics aren’t smart enough to get required pre-natal supplements, on their own.
Somehow I made it to over 70 years old, and to my recollection, this is the first time I've heard of this.
Or maybe I knew and forgot?
Not that it matters, looking at the list of foods that provide it, my wife and I have always gotten enough of it anyway.
Looks like if those who don't get enough varied their diet a little more they would be fine.
Constantly eating a very small group of foods can't be good for one.The government forcing an additive to food? What could possibly go wrong?
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