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If you worry about some of the added costs of purchasing organic foods but you give to charity, think of organic food as giving to the most effective environmental charity today, more powerful even than the American Cancer Society or the march of dimes, says the gifted writer and ecologist Sandra Steingraber. Your charity will show up in your food bill. Although your bill might be a little higher, your reward will be to know you are not only healthier yourself but that by protecting your children you are protecting all of our children.

Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey See book keywords and concepts

Pediatrics 117, S296-S307. 49. march of dimes. (2007) www.marchofdimes.com/pnhec/ 298_834.asp. 50. American Society of Human Genetics. (2007). www.acmg .net/resources/policies/ACT/condi tion-analyte-links.htm. Accessed August 2, 2007. 51. Lucas, B. L., Feucht, S. A., and Grieger, L. Eds. (2004). "Children with Special Health Care Needs: Nutrition Care Handbook." Pediatric Nutrition Practice Group and Dietetics in Developmental and Psychiatric Disorders, American Dietetic Association. 52. Bujold, C. R. (2006).

However, the march of dimes [49], the American Academy of Pediatrics [46], and the American Society Human of Genetics [50] have developed recommendations and guidelines for expanded NBS, which, it is hoped, will be universally adopted. The general criteria for inclusion of a disorder in an NBS panel are shown in Table 3. Resources for up-to-date information on expanded NBS programs are shown in Table 4. TABLE 3 Generally Accepted Criteria for Newborn Screening for a Specific Disorder Symptoms are usually absent in newborns.

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NUMBERS ARE DROPPING The number of women in the US taking folic acid supplements dropped from 40% in 2004 to 33% in 2005, according to a report from the march of dimes. A daily supplement of 400 micrograms (meg) of folic acid, a vitamin crucial for proper cell growth, can dramatically reduce birth defects of the brain and spine, such as spina bifida. Such problems occur in approximately 3,000 pregnancies every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Davidoff, manager of informatics, research and development, march of dimes. Amanda Cotter, MD, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami. Seminars in Perinatology. The average length of a pregnancy in the United States is getting shorter, with the most common duration now 39 weeks, rather than the full term 40 weeks, according to a recent report. Babies born close to full term—five to six weeks early, called late preterm—now account for most of the premature births in the US.

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Yet 17 million American women take birth control pills that deplete folic acid and increase their risk for breast and cervical cancer, as well as increase the number of children born with birth defects. A march of dimes survey indicates women who don't take a daily multivitamin would be more likely to take a folic acid supplement if encouraged by their physician. [AWHONN Lifelines 8: 12-13, 2004] Why there is no mandate to place folic acid in birth control pills goes unexplained. Folic acid and viral-induced cancer There is a relatively new discovery involving folic acid and cancer.

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Roosevelt; that the march of dimes was victorious; that no longer would the first association with the word "Jew" be Julius and Ethyl Rosenberg, who had been executed in 1952; that there was a new hero to worship. On that day, Jonas Salk announced the successful testing of a vaccine against polio, the last of the dreaded infectious diseases to be controlled. There was a new hero. My family rejoiced. My only problem was that I was supposed to be the one to grow up and cure polio. Now my work was really cut out for me. I'd have to switch my attention and cure cancer.

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Approximately 15% of recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage, according to the march of dimes. But Stephenson says that statistic usually includes the pregnancies that survive for six weeks. "When you count the ones that occur before six weeks, up to half of the pregnancies end in miscarriage," she notes. ADVICE: DE-STRESS The best advice for women trying to get pregnant is to de-stress your life before you conceive, Stephenson suggests. "I talk about this a lot with my patients," she says. "I recommend that before they get pregnant, they take a serious look at their lifestyle.

F°r more information on a healthy preg-*~ nancy, visit the march of dimes Web site, www. marchofdimes, com/pnhec/pnhec. asp. Stress Near Conception May Affect Pregnancy Pablo A. Nepomnaschy, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health. Mary Stephenson, MD, MSc, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and director, Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Program, University of Chicago. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.

To learn more about miscarriages, visit — the march of dimes Web site at www. ma rchofdimes. com. Mom's Antidepressant Use Raises Newborn's Risk for Lung Condition Christina D. Chambers, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics, University of California, San Diego. Sandra L. Kweder, MD, deputy director, Office of New Drugs, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration. Jennifer Wu, MD, obstetrician/gynecologist, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City. The New England Journal ofMedicine.

Siobhan Dolan, associate medical director of the march of dimes, says women need to make taking a multivitamin a daily habit. Taking a multivitamin at the same time every day or leaving the bottle near something associated with a morning ritual, such as a coffee cup or a box of cereal, might help boost compliance, she says. It's important that all women of child-bearing age follow the advice about multivitamins and folic acid because many pregnancies are unplanned, Dolan says. .-Q To learn more about folic acid, visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web site at www.cdc.

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Most doctors, many other healthcare professionals, and the march of dimes recommend that all women of childbearing age supplement with 400 meg per day of folic acid. Such supplementation would protect against the formation of neural tube defects during the time between conception and when pregnancy is discovered. If a woman waits until aftet pregnancy has been discovered to begin taking folic acid supplements, it will probably be too late to prevent a neural tube defect. Other birth defects (page 63) may be prevented with folic acid supplementation as well.

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For this reason the march of dimes, the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS), and other organizations recommend that all women of childbearing age take a daily multivitamin that contains 400 meg of folic acid. If you already have had a pregnancy affected by spina bifida (or other neural-tube defect, the USPHS recommends that you take 400 meg of folic acid daily if you are not planning to become pregnant.

Today the march of dimes, known for its antipolio campaign of the 1950s, has become a leading advocate of folic acid supplementation before and during pregnancy. Down Syndrome Although the role of poor maternal nutrition in the development of Down syndrome has not been delineated, research on other types of birth defects points to its being a critical factor. In addition, the risk of delivering an infant with Down syndrome increases with a woman's age, suggesting that age-related deterioration of a woman's eggs (and the DNA in those eggs) plays a role.

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Nutritional supplements that may be helpful Most doctors, many other healthcare professionals, and the march of dimes recommend that all women of childbearing age supplement with 400 meg per day of folic acid (page 520). Such supplementation could protect against the formation of neural tube defects (such as spina bifida) during the time between conception and when pregnancy is discovered. The requirement for the B vitamin folic acid doubles during pregnancy, to 800 meg per day from all sources.

The United States Department of Public Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the march of dimes recommend that all women who are capable of becoming pregnant supplement with 400 meg folic acid daily. Daily supplementation prior to pregnancy is necessary because most pregnancies in the United States are unplanned15 and the protective effect of folic acid occurs in the first four weeks of fetal development,16 before most women know they are pregnant.

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In his book, Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine, Cohen (2001) stated that the wayward search for an AIDS vaccine could have been shortened considerably via centralization of leadership and unification of direction under a model similar to that of the effective development of the polio vaccine by the march of dimes. With no similar type of organizational leadership, there has been no master strategy in the development of an AIDS vaccine.

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David Bodian, of Johns Hopkins, working with the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (the march of dimes), eventually identified more than 200 strains of polio virus, which fell into three main categories. In 1949, while working on a mumps vaccine at Children's Hospital in Boston, John F. Enders, Frederick Robbins, and Thomas Weller accidentally discovered that the poliovirus was not, despite contrary American medical dogma, limited to neural tissues. They found, as the Swedish had, that it thrived in the gastrointestinal tract and in human tissue cultures.

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Of the 65,000 industrial chemicals on register at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for example, one investigator projected that 2,000— between 3 and 5 percent—had neurotoxic potential; another researcher put the figure at more than 18,000—or about 28 percent. The march of dimes estimates that 5 to 10 percent of birth defects are the result of environmental insult but does not have figures on how many neurological birth defects are specifically due to neurotoxins.

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Unfortunately, a survey by the march of dimes has found that 90 percent of women of reproductive age are unaware of this fact, and only 15 percent are aware that the federal government has recommended that all women capable of bearing children get 400 micrograms of folic acid every day. This amount of folic acid is available in a multivita-min/mineral supplement. Still, only 28 percent of the women surveyed take a vitamin containing folic acid every day.

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Many authorities, such as the march of dimes, advise pregnant women not to drink at all, since it is possible that even a few drinks at a crucial moment in fetal development could cause slight but measurable mental deficits (see Chapter 11, "Reproductive Effects and Prenatal Exposures," and Chapter 12, "Of Special Concern: Infants and Children"). Box 5.7 ALCOHOL STATISTICS According to the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc.

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The Copenhagen conference was sponsored by Sabin's benefactor—the Sister Kenny Foundation—the counterpart to the march of dimes Foundation that supported Salk. Prior to the meeting, Hilleman had wondered what he would talk about. He decided a presentation on "something that's gonna attract attention.... I know what I'm gonna do," he enticed Shorter, "I'm going to talk about, the detection of non-detectable vimses. ... So I thought gee that damn SV40.

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In 1978 the Society brought in almost $140 million in donations and bequests, putting it ahead of its older rivals, such as the American Heart Association, the National Foundation (the march of dimes), or the American Lung Association. This increased to more than $331 million in 1987 (ACS, 1989). What accounts for the ACS's phenomenal success? Obviously the ACS benefits from the importance of cancer as a public-health problem. But there is more to it than that. Heart and circulatory disease is a far greater cause of death than cancer.

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Over 100 employees are coordinating about 50 charities, including the United Way, Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy, and march of dimes fundraising drives." By cultivating a caring, community-minded image, BG&E has been able to limit opposition to its dry cask proposal. The key, says BG&E Public Information Officer Karl Neddenien, is to build this image early: "As long as ten years before a utility even thinks about a dry storage facility, it had better have developed a good community image.

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The drug companies contributed very little to polio research—the American people did that by contributing $500 million to the march of dimes, the National Foundation's fund-raising appeal. When a Winthrop Laboratories executive was asked by the National Foundation to participate in the development of the Salk vaccine, he declined, saying, "We felt it would be a socialized rat race" (quoted in Roz-ental, 1961).

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A 1999 box of General Mills' Total cereal, for example, proclaimed, "100% folic acid," and its rear panel contained this message: "Saving babies together: a message from the march of dimes . . . [H]elp spread the word about folic acid and help save a baby." Whether higher levels of folic acid fortification improve the health of babies or adults is difficult to determine, in part because people who already eat the best diets—those who are wealthier, better educated, and more concerned about their health—are the most likely to increase their nutrient intake by eating fortified foods.

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In 1983, the ACS refused to join a coalition of the march of dimes, American Heart Association, and the American Lung Association to support the Clean Air Act. • In 1992, the ACS issued a joint statement with the Chlorine Institute in support of the continued global use of orga-nochlorine pesticides — despite clear evidence that some were known to cause breast cancer. In this statement, Society Vice President Clark Heath, M.D., dismissed evidence of this risk as "preliminary and mostly based on weak and indirect association.

For example, ACS refuses to join a coalition of major organizations, including the march of dimes, American Heart Association, and American Lung Association, to support the Clean Air Act. ACS has rejected requests from Congressional subcommittees, unions, and environmental organizations to support their efforts to ban or regulate a wide range of occupational and environmental carcinogens. Giant corporations, which profit handsomely while they pollute the air, water and food with cancer causing chemicals, must be greatly comforted by the ACS's silence (Chapter 16).

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It refused to join a coalition of major organizations, including the march of dimes, the American Heart Association, and the American Lung Association, to support the Clean Air Act. ACS statements are "expressly or implicitly hostile to regulation" of polluting industries. Its approach to cancer prevention is a "blame the victim" philosophy. For instance, it blames the higher incidence of cancer among blacks primarily on diet and smoking, rather than on the fact that "blacks work in the dirtiest, most hazardous jobs and live in the most polluted communities" (ibid.).

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