If you were expecting a baby, how much would you pay to decrease the risk of a birth defect to the brain or spinal CORD? How about five cents per day? That’s what taking four hundred micrograms of Folic Acid per day costs.

Folic acid is a B vitamin. The U.S. Public health department recommends all women of childbearing age consume four hundred micrograms of folic acid daily. In the United States, approximately two thousand five hundred infants each year are born with defects to the brain or spinal cord. These cases could be reduced by up to 75 percent by taking four hundred micrograms of folic acid daily. Five cents per day is all this would cost. A little investment in nutrition now may pay off richly in your baby’s health later.