New Energy Drink Has Negative Calories (WNDU 16 South Bend) You have heard of fat-free drinks, but what about one that has negative calories? It is called "Celsius", the metabolism boosting, calorie burning soda. Celsius has vitamins C and B, green tea and ginger, no carbs and 200 milligrams of caffeine. [News Source]

Coca-Cola buys colorful beverage maker (UPI) ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Coca-Cola Co. is buying Fuze Beverage LLC, a small U.S. maker of vitamin-enhanced juices, teas and energy drinks, the company said Thursday. [News Source]

Coming home to roost? Bird flu has flared up again in Asia, reminding the world it is still at risk from a human flu pandemic. [News Source]

Study links pollutant, heart risk in older women. Women over 50 living in highly polluted areas such as northwestern Riverside County have more than double the chance of developing heart disease and dying from it that those living in clean-air communities do, according to a recent health study. [News Source]

Air pollution raises risk of heart disease in women. Women exposed to invisible particles from traffic fumes and coal-fired power stations are at increased risk of heart disease and death, according to a study in one of the world's leading medical journals today. [News Source]

Study claims link between pollution, heart disease. After studying three dozen cities and nearly 66,000 post-menopausal women, scientists found the women in the worst-polluted cities had a 76 percent greater chance of dying from heart ailments than those in the least-polluted cities. [News Source]

Harmful fats removed from supermarket food. Artery clogging trans-fats will have been phased out of almost all supermarket own-brand food within weeks, Britain's major retailers said yesterday. [News Source]

Calcium lowers cardiovascular risk in people on a weight loss program (EurekAlert!) Quebec City, February 1, 2007 -- Université Laval Faculty of Medicine researchers have discovered that taking calcium and vitamin D supplements while on a weight loss program lowers the risk of cardiovascular disease. [News Source]

eFoodSafety.com, Inc. Adds Over 1,000 Retail Locations to its Retail Distribution Network for Cinnergen(TM) (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.----eFoodSafety.com, Inc. , a Company dedicated to improving health conditions around the world through innovative products and technologies, today announced that Hy-Vee Supermarket Stores, H-E-B Stores, and Vitamin World have been added to the growing list of retailers featuring Cinnergen, the Company's clinically-studied, non-prescription liquid whole food nutritional ... [News Source]

Bottled Water comes to life - Introducing Aquafina Alive (FoodOnline) Aquafina is bringing the water category to life with the launch of Aquafina Alive - a low calorie, vitamin-enhanced water beverage [News Source]

Storefronts (The Oregonian) CARPE DIEM What's new: A salon and spa with an emphasis on natural beauty care opened Jan. 3. What's cool: The focus is on chemical-free, with nonacrylic manicures and pedicures, pine tree and sugar wax hair removal, natural eyelash enhancement and alternative facial treatments such as jet peels (pure oxygen and saline), photo-rejuvenation, ultrasonic exfoliation and vitamin therapy. [News Source]

Drop in folate intake could bring more birth defects (The News & Observer) Each year since 1998, a campaign to boost young women's intake of a B vitamin called folate has saved an estimated 1,000 American babies from early death or lifelong disability. But the drive to prevent neural-tube defects in newborns is stalled, sli [News Source]