Archive for Friday, January 9, 2009
Steamboat briefs for Jan. 9
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Get your share of folic acid through Saturday
During National Folic Acid Awareness Week, through Saturday, women of childbearing age are encouraged to take a daily multivitamin and to eat foods rich in folate before becoming pregnant to prevent birth defects in their newborns.
The U.S. Public Health Service recommends that all women of childbearing age consume 400 micrograms of folic acid by taking a multivitamin daily and eating fortified grains. Fortified grains include enriched cereals, pasta, rice, bread, dried beans and peas. Peanut butter and orange juice also are good sources of folic acid.
For more information about folic acid, visit the National Council on Folic Acid's Web site, www.folicacidinfo.org, or call 303-692-2700.
Library tallies Food For Fines donations by youths
Bud Werner Memorial Library has announced that during its Food For Fines program in December, 76 children and teens donated a total of more than 400 food items to the LIFT-UP of Routt County Food Bank. Library staff issued a big "thank you" to all the local youth and parents who participated in the annual program, which allows youths to donate food items in lieu of outstanding library fines.
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