Hesitation in the Health Sector costs lives!
June 2, 2003
According to the British Medical Journal thousands of deaths in Denmark are due to the authorities not being willing to take the available documentation on folic acid into account.
350,000 deaths due to cardiovascular disease could have been avoided the last ten years if the British authorities had used the available knowledge about the effect of folic acid, according to the British Medical Journal who refers from a London conference (BMJ 2003; 326: 1054).
Here, Professor Godfrey Oakley said, among other things:
“By not requiring mandatory addition of folic acid to the flour, the authorities have committed a fatal health policy error.” Oakley has the support of a number of colleagues, and cardiologist David Wald recommends, for example, that you take a dietary supplement of 800 µg of folic acid a day until the authorities do something about it.
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By: Vitality Council.
References:
BMJ 2003;326:1054.
Canadian Medical Association Journal 2002;167:241-5.
bmj.bmjjournals.com
www.cmaj.ca
www.iom.dk