{"id":19848,"date":"2017-01-31T17:13:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T17:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=19848"},"modified":"2017-01-31T17:13:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T17:13:27","slug":"nutrition-what-does-folate-folic-acid-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/nutrition-what-does-folate-folic-acid-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutrition:  what does folate (folic acid) do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor explores the function of folic acid in the body.<\/h1>\n<p>Folate is a B-vitamin; the synthetic form used to supplement foods is folic acid, which the body converts to folate.<\/p>\n<p>Folate is needed for cell division and producing certain amino acids.  A deficiency may result, for instance, in megaloblastic anemia: impaired cell division produces too few, but larger, red blood cells.<\/p>\n<p>Folate is important during pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chriskresser.com\/folate-vs-folic-acid\/\">chriskresser.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lpi.oregonstate.edu\/mic\/vitamins\/folate#definitions\">oregonstate.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ods.od.nih.gov\/factsheets\/Folate-HealthProfessional\">ods.od.nih.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor explores the function of folic acid in the body. Folate is a B-vitamin; the synthetic form used to supplement foods is folic acid, which the body converts to folate. Folate is needed for cell division and producing certain &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/nutrition-what-does-folate-folic-acid-do\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nutrition:  what does folate (folic acid) do?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1805,1370,752],"tags":[2117],"class_list":["post-19848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet","category-health","category-nutrition","tag-megaloblastic-anemia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19848"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19855,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19848\/revisions\/19855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}