Tag: folate

Celiac Disease and Folate Deficiency: A Neurological Threat to Developing Babies

by Jessie Erwin
December 1, 2025

We're thrilled to bring you another edition of Nutrition Stories, our series exploring hot topics in nutrition and dietetics. Today's guest is Emily Cohen, a graduate of the UF Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD) and current master's degree ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, Work & Life
Tags: Celiac Disease, Dietetics, Emily Cohen, Folate, Folate Deficiency, Folic Acid, FSHN Nutrition Stories, Nutrition, Nutrition Stories, Pregnancy

Nourishing Your Pregnancy: Key Nutrients to Consider for a Healthy Future

by Jessie Erwin
October 6, 2025

Welcome back to Nutrition Stories, a series exploring hot topics in nutrition and dietetics. Today's guest is Maria Alejandra Corredor, a graduate of the UF Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD) in the Food Science and Human Nutrition (FSHN) ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, Work & Life
Tags: Calcium, DHA, Dietetics, Folate, Folic Acid, FSHN Nutrition Stories, Iron, Maria Alejandra Corredor, Nutrients, Nutrition, Nutrition Stories, Pregnancy

What Are Folate and Folic Acid?

by Samantha Murray
January 4, 2016

This week is National Folic Acid Awareness week, so now is a good time to talk about why folic acid and folate are important to your health. The terms folate and folic acid both refer to a B vitamin used by the body in making new cells.1 ... READ MORE

Category: Health & Nutrition, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: Birth Defects, Family Hot Topic, Folate, Folic Acid, Women's Health

UF researchers find potential malaria treatment may extend to Legionnaires’ disease, botulism

by BLOGS.IFAS
May 7, 2009

Caption at the bottom of the page. Click here for full image. GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- University of Florida researchers have found that a potential strategy for treating malaria also extends to the bacteria behind maladies such as Legionnaires' ... READ MORE

Category: Invasive Species, UF/IFAS
Tags: Andrew Hanson, E.coli, Folate, Genome, John Hyde, Legionnaire, Malaria, PTPS, Valérie De Crécy-Lagard

UF researchers design folate-packed tomato

by Doug Mayo
March 6, 2007

By: Stu Hutson 352-392-0400 Source(s): Andrew D. Hanson adha@ufl.edu, 352-392-1928 ext. 334 Jesse F. Gregory III jfgy@ufl.edu, 352-392-1991 ext. 225, http://www.hos.ufl.edu/meteng/1cpage1.html http://fshn.ifas.ufl.edu/faculty/JFGregory/index.html View ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Health & Nutrition, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Andrew D. Hanson, Folate, Jesse F. Gregory, Tomatoes

UF researchers find new chink in a ‘superbug’s’ armor

by Doug Mayo
December 8, 2006

By: Stu Hutson 352-392-0400Source(s): Valérie de Crécy-Lagard, vcrecy@ufl.edu, 352-392-9416, http://microcell.ufl.edu/deCrecy.html View Photo GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Infections from drug-resistant forms of Staphylococcus bacteria are skyrocketing ... READ MORE

Category: UF/IFAS Research, Work & Life
Tags: Folate, Valérie De Crécy-Lagard

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