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The American Holistic Health Association (AHHA) offers a free monthly Special Updates email report that includes a Featured Research item. The goal is to present research that may be relevant as you (and your healthcare support team) consider health-enhancing lifestyle and treatment options. Through the years AHHA has used a number of sources that generously provided us appropriate research to be included in the eReports. These sources were selected because of their known high standards for evaluating research. One source, Aisle 7, is unfortunately no longer in this database. The new parent company for Aisle 7 discontinued this project and according to our agreement AHHA was required to remove all of their articles.

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Autism - Folic Acid

The first three months of a developing fetus are significantly impacted by the nutrition of the mother. For this reason, women hoping to become pregnant have been urged to be sure they have folic acid in their diet. The list of reasons for this just gained a new, important item. A recent study shows the correlation between low folic acid and the risk of autism in the child. Details about this study are in “Maternal Folic Acid Supplementation May Reduce Autism Risk” in the February, 2013, issue of Natural Standard’s Integrative Medicine Newsletter.