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Goodbye to folic acid deficiency? - Health - msnbc.com

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A scan of the Canadian population reveals that, thanks largely to fortified foods, almost no one is deficient in folic acid, and forty percent have relatively high -- maybe even too high -- levels of the B vitamin in their blood.

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