March of Dimes and coalition push for folic acid in enriched Hispanic foods
![](https://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/01/NEWSpina-bifida-1024x826.jpg)
By Madison Hopkins The push is on to bring folic acid to the diets of Hispanic women, who are 30-40 times more likely to have babies with a crippling birth defect than other groups. Hispanic women traditionally rely on corn masa flour to make foods like tortillas and staples of Latin American diets. They are […]