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micrograms of folate or eating breakfast cereal fortified with 100% of the RDA for folic acid. In
addition, green leafy vegetables, such as spinach, can have up to 100 micrograms of folate per
serving."
Disentangling the effects of folate from other micronutrients (e.g. the other vitamins) can be
difficult, but the authors think they have succeeded in doing this by looking at several different
nutrients in statistical analyses. Ms Young said: "The results of the different analyses were different,
which gave us some confidence that we could look at the effect of these micronutrients separately.
The definitive way to answer this question would be with a randomised control trial with folate
supplementation."
References
[1] Pulses include foods such as beans, chickpeas and lentils.
[2] The association of folate, zinc and antioxidant intake with sperm aneuploidy in healthy non-
smoking men. Doi:10.1093/humrep/den036
[3] Sperm aneuploidy can have a number of consequences ranging from failure to conceive,
miscarriages or children born with conditions such as Down's syndrome, Turner's syndrome and
Klinefelter's syndrome.
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