How to ensure you serve up a healthy Christmas dinner - and watch out for warmed-up leftovers (icWales) FIVE-A-DAY VEGETABLE TARGETS [News Source]

Wheatgrass juice very effective for chronic diseases (Navhind Times) IT is said wheat grass juice can be effective in the treatment of many diseases when all other therapies fail. Wheatgrass juice, containing almost all the minerals and vitamins, is known to have the capacity to fight various diseases including chronic ones. [News Source]

Lack of education among players on doping: Akhtar (Khaleej Times) KARACHI — Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar said yesterday there is a lack of education among cricketers about banned substances. "There are so many vitamins, remedies, syrups that can produce steroids but we don’t know about them, never learnt about them,” Akhtar told reporters. [News Source]

Gain Valuable Information on the Vitamins and Dietary Supplements Market in Malaysia (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of Euromonitor International's new report: Vitamins and Dietary Supplements in Malaysia to their offering. [News Source]

It’s Vera, Aloe Vera (New Straits Times) MANVEET KAUR writes about an international favourite in the therapeutic and beauty worlds. [News Source]

CELLULAR NUTRITION / The Hunt to Fix Hidden Hunger / Biochemist Bruce Ames thinks a simple multivitamin may fight … (San Francisco Chronicle) The biochemist who invented one of the first tests for carcinogens, the same man who made a career of decrying organic agriculture and infuriating environmentalists with his full-throated defense of pesticides, has just devoured a massive pile of glistening,... [News Source]

Independent Appeal: A cold wind of death in Darfur (Independent) A heavy yellow-brown fog hung over Gereida in the remote western reaches of Darfur yesterday, a place that a year ago was empty desert scrub and which is today the largest refugee camp in the world. It was cold, somewhere about 5C. The air was charged with particles of choking sand. [News Source]

Rosehips ‘could help tackle inflammatory diseases’ (Evening Standard) Rosehips could provide new ways of tackling a whole range of inflammatory diseases, research suggests. The red berries, one of the richest sources of vitamin C, have been used in cooking and medicine for hundreds of years. [News Source]

Shoaib pleads ignorance over doping row (Evening Standard) Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar said Sunday there is a lack of education among cricketers about banned substances. "There are so many vitamins, remedies, syrups that can produce steroids but we don't know about them, never learnt about them," Akhtar said. [News Source]

Biotech Program Gets Big Boost (RedNova) By Erin Stewart Deseret Morning News Utah high school students may soon know how to produce pesticides from living cells before they even know how to drive. [News Source]

Can the planet sustain your lifestyle? Working out your eco-footprint is easy. It's also the best way to identify how sustainable your lifestyle is, and how to cut back on excess. [News Source]

Have yourself a carbon-neutral Christmas… This holiday season there's a new must-have: carbon neutrality. Concerned consumers can pay to have their greenhouse gas emissions canceled out by a corresponding emissions reduction elsewhere. [News Source]