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The UK Government plans to add folic acid to non-wholemeal wheat flour from the end of 2026 to prevent rare neural tube defects in babies. 

Pregnant women are not taking the recommended supplements and so the entire population will be subjected to supplementation through our bread.  Why is this a problem?  Because, Dr. Vernon Coleman points out, too much folic acid in our diet has negative health consequences.

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The UK government has decided to add folic acid, also known as vitamin B9, to non-wholemeal wheat flour to help prevent life-threatening spinal conditions in babies.  The decision follows a public consultation and is expected to prevent around 200 neural tube defects each year. The addition of folic acid to flour is already practised in over 80 countries, including Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

“Over 99% of British households buy bread and over a quarter of all groceries in the four biggest supermarkets contain flour, making adding folic acid to flour-based products a simple way to increase folate levels for tens of millions of people across the UK,” a 2021 press release from the UK government said.

Starting from the end of 2026, the Government proposes adding 250 microgrammes of folic acid per 100 grammes of flour.  However, as Dr. Vernon Coleman explains, if pregnant women took their folic acid tablets as recommended, there would be no need to add it to our food.

The problem with adding folic acid to wheat flour, and so affecting the diets of everyone, is that people can have too much.  And as Dr. Coleman describes below, too much folic acid has health consequences.

By Dr. Vernon Coleman

The UK Government is going to put folic acid into non-wholemeal wheat flour at the end of 2026.

The UK Government is adding folic acid to prevent around 200 babies being born with neural tube defects each year – something which could be prevented if pregnant women took their recommended folic acid tablets.

Folic acid does a lot of important stuff, some of it involving DNA and RNA. It’s more important than mobile phones, nail clippers or coconut ice. But if you eat a reasonably balanced diet, you will almost certainly get enough of the stuff. Women who don’t have enough are at risk of having very small babies, possibly, though rarely, with neural tube defects. And, of course and inevitably, it has been alleged that folic acid deficiency may be responsible for autism spectrum disorders. The medical establishment will blame autism on anything except vaccines.

But you can, of course, have too much of a good thing. You can have too much alcohol, too much caviar, too much television and too much folic acid.

One paper has shown that high doses of folic acid taken after pre-neoplastic lesions have been established might promote cancer development and progression.

Another major study found that folic acid supplementation “significantly increased the risks of having three or more adenomas.” A third paper reported a significantly higher cancer incidence, especially of colorectal and other gastrointestinal cancers.

A meta-analysis of six randomised, controlled trials that included a total of 25,738 men found that the risk of prostate cancer was 24% higher in men receiving folic acid supplements than those taking a placebo. There’s much more solid evidence and a conclusion from the National Institutes of Health was that “It seems possible that folic acid supplementation might promote cancer development and progression.” The National Institutes of Health concluded that: “more research is needed to fully understand how dietary folate and supplemental folic acid affect cancer risk …”

Oh, and folic acid supplementation seems associated with lower scores on several tests of cognitive development in children aged 4-5 years. And some scientists have suggested cognitive impairment among older adults.

“These potential negative health consequences are not well understood and warrant further research” concluded the National Institutes of Health, which is, of course, part of the US Government. It has also been suggested that folic acid might reduce the numbers and activity of natural killer cells, thereby affecting the immune system.

Finally, it seems that folate supplements can interact with a number of prescribed drugs. I don’t know if it will be safe with the fluoride they’re putting in the water.

Read more: Folate, Fact Sheet for Health Professionals, National Institutes of Health

Still, the authorities will no doubt assure us that there is no risk. These will, of course, be the same authorities who lied, lied and lied again about covid, lockdowns, the PCR test and the covid vaccine – and a thousand other things.

The government wants to put folic acid into flour to stop pregnant women who don’t have enough folic acid in their bodies from having babies with a neural tube defect.

Pregnant women, or women contemplating pregnancy, could, of course, just take `free’ folic acid tablets to prevent this happening but some can’t be bothered, presumably preferring to take the risk of having a badly deformed baby than go through the physical and mental torment of taking a pill once a day.

Why would any government in its collective right mind deliberately and cold-bloodedly do something that could cause damage to the health and life of every citizen in order to protect the health of unborn children who can easily be protected if their mothers take a few pills? Either your government doesn’t know what you and I know about folic acid, or they want to kill as many of us as possible.

Note: Vernon Coleman’s startling new book `The End of Medicine’ is now available. To find out more, please CLICK HERE Medical care is being deliberately and systematically destroyed as doctors give global warming precedence over patients’ interests.

About the Author

Vernon Coleman MB ChB DSc practised medicine for ten years. He has been a full-time professional author for over 30 years. He is a novelist and campaigning writer and has written many non-fiction books.  He has written over 100 books which have been translated into 22 languages. On his website, HERE, there are hundreds of articles which are free to read.

There are no ads, no fees and no requests for donations on Dr. Coleman’s website or videos. He pays for everything through book sales. If you want to help finance his work, please just buy a book – there are over 100 books by Vernon Coleman in print on Amazon.

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Rhoda Wilson
While previously it was a hobby culminating in writing articles for Wikipedia (until things made a drastic and undeniable turn in 2020) and a few books for private consumption, since March 2020 I have become a full-time researcher and writer in reaction to the global takeover that came into full view with the introduction of covid-19. For most of my life, I have tried to raise awareness that a small group of people planned to take over the world for their own benefit. There was no way I was going to sit back quietly and simply let them do it once they made their final move.

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INGRID C DURDEN
INGRID C DURDEN
1 month ago

Instead of taking the simple solution, namely prescribing pregnant women (who go to the doctor every week so it seems) and leaving all the rest of the population alone. And, are we sure that bit B9, is indeed benign for pregnant women? Why just not leave everyone alone with their numbers! People are not statistics and the birth defect might be caused by something completely different, for all they know.

Stitchywitch
Stitchywitch
1 month ago

I was told to take Folic acid when I was pregnant. I was on it for a total of 3 days. The first day I felt really ill and was repeatedly sick (I’d had no morning sickness before this, and had none after I stopped ), The second day I was substantially worse. The third day I was completely unable to function and phoned the person who recommended it, who told me to stop taking it. The 4th day I was absolutely fine and continued to be for the remainder of my pregnancy. My body was desperate to get rid of the stuff, and did so quite violently. I am now 63 and unlikely to become pregnant, so if I have the same reaction to everything containing flour in 2026, I’m going to be losing a lot of weight.

Dave Owen
Dave Owen
1 month ago

Hi Rhoda,
Never mind about folic acid. why is our UK government putting Fluoride in our drinking water.
Fluoride is a deadly poison which the Aluminium industry did not know what to do with.
The UK is run by dual passport holders, who have no regard for the public.
It’s a case of you will have what we say, not what is good for you.

LouLou
LouLou
1 month ago

Simple way to look at these things is that if the establishment wish to add some nafarious substance to your food (because all of a sudden they care about babies), then you can pretty much adopt an immediate survival tactic by doing the complete opposite.

Paul Watson
Paul Watson
1 month ago

Government tyranny..

JL BALL
JL BALL
1 month ago

What about the many people with one of the MTHFR genetic disorders? The synthetic folic acid ( as opposed to natural folate) is kryptonite for us! Seriously bad. We can’t process folate well and it is needed for the body’s methylation processes. About 30% of the population is heterozygous for MTHFR; about 8% have the double whammy and are homozygous – functioning at one third of the energy level of everybody else. This new move is sure to finish them off.