Women who take a daily multivitamin before and during pregnancy sharply reduce the likelihood that their children will develop leukemia, brain tumors and other forms of childhood cancer, according to new Canadian research. Taking multivitamins and folic acid during your pregnancy can greatly lower the risk of the mother’s baby developing cancer by almost 50 percent. This new study was done from Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children.

The research should encourage mothers greatly to take multivitamins and folic acid during pregnancy as it is a simple solution which can reap huge rewards.

The study found that a regime of multivitamins and folic acid helped lower the chance of a baby developing a brain tumor by 27 percent, leukemia by 39 percent and neroblastoma by 49 percent. These are some huge numbers for just taking a simple vitamin every say.

Doctors in the study stated that only 40 percent of Canadian mothers took multivitamins which are highly accessible and cheap.