Folic* Acid For All - Yay Or Nay? (*just For Oli)

Simonius_Titius · *by **Simonius_Titius** on Mon 13th Feb 4:45pm*

Yay for Marmite!
Not all kids decide to have parents who want to eat Vogels though, or who can afford it.

With the decline in cooking skills you can't assume that people know how to make a sandwich any more anyway.

great uncle bulgaria · *by **great uncle bulgaria** on Mon 13th Feb 5:56pm*

do helements actually prevent neural tube defects?

Simonius_Titius · *by **Simonius_Titius** on Mon 13th Feb 6:49pm*

Helemets may stop your neural tubes from getting broken during a prangle.

Folate works differently. In layman's terms it blows out the neural tubes of the foetus, ejecting defects like spitballs. The protective effect is quite large, I don't recall how much.

great uncle bulgaria · *by **great uncle bulgaria** on Mon 13th Feb 7:24pm*

50% reduction*. zero risk*

all numerical figures are approximate. please seek the advice of a medical professional.
do not try this at home

cruiser · *by **cruiser** on Mon 13th Feb 7:31pm*

They'd hit their target market better if it was added to alcopop

great uncle bulgaria · *by **great uncle bulgaria** on Mon 13th Feb 7:35pm*

cruiser wrote:They'd hit their target market better if it was added to alcopop

difficult choice. NTD or Fetal Alcohol Syndrome :hmmm:

Mickyfinn · *by **Mickyfinn** on Mon 13th Feb 7:45pm*

cruiser wrote:They'd hit their target market better if it was added to alcopop

reducing pholic acid in the target population might stop them abusing each other

Simonius_Titius · *by **Simonius_Titius** on Mon 13th Feb 7:49pm*

Folate + B vitamins + soluble contraceptive in alcopop?

Kiwicyclo · *by **Kiwicyclo** on Mon 13th Feb 8:15pm*

There has been $hit you dont know about in your bread for decades . . . folic acid is the least of your worries!

How about that "nice" chlorine gas we used to bleach and break down the protien in flour so your lovely cakes can be nice and fluffy!

The other additives and ad mixtures so that Bulk Fermentation (the long way to make bread) can be dissed so Mechanical dough Development can take over to churn out your loaves in likkidy split time . . . .

Or the genetic modification of wheat for like the last 50 years to create a higher yield, higher protien flour.

Bring on the folate!

cruiser · *by **cruiser** on Mon 13th Feb 8:25pm*

as long as bakers, or we, aren't forced to pay for blanket pseudoscience it's all good.

on te otherhand, Hamilton should have it's own laws

great uncle bulgaria · *by **great uncle bulgaria** on Mon 13th Feb 10:27pm*

cruiser wrote:blanket pseudoscience.

Oli · *by **Oli** on Mon 13th Feb 10:54pm*

FOLIC

R+P+K · *by **R+P+K** on Mon 13th Feb 11:02pm*

Simonius_Titius wrote:Yay for Marmite!
Not all kids decide to have parents who want to eat Vogels though, or who can afford it.

OMG, have you seen the price of freaking bread nowadays? $4+ for those fancy multi-grain loaves.

znomit · *by **znomit** on Mon 13th Feb 11:02pm*

Bakers work crazy stupid hours.
If they make frolic acid compulsory nobody will ever buy bread again.

Mass closures of bakeries across the land.

Instead of riding their unicycles to work at 3am along state highways they will get regular jobs as accountants and traveling salesmen, almost certainly driving cars

DRAMATICALLY INCREASING THE RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC FORCING GOOD HONEST COMMUTING CYCLISTS OFF THEIR BIKES.

Stop the madness

Ahad · *by **Ahad** on Mon 13th Feb 11:22pm*

Piss easy to get enough folate in your diet if you eat real food.

If not, and you're thinking of having a baby just pop some supp's a few months before trying.

Not my fault if the junkfood generation is too stupid, lazy and ignorant to look after themselves.