Latest News on Vitamins and Health

American Pharmacists Association tips (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Tuesday February 20th 2007, 6:08 pm

AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION TIPS • Read the package and label of all over-the-counter medicines carefully. Look for the section called "Drug Interaction Precaution." • Make sure your doctor and pharmacist have a list of all the prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins and herbal products you use every day or every so often. Keep a personal medication record and take it with you ... [News Source]

How Safe Are Your Vitamins? (News 25 Evansville)
Tuesday February 20th 2007, 5:05 pm

EVANSVILLE - You have hundreds of vitamins to choose from. But how do you know which one is the right one for you, and if it's safe? [News Source]

A New Guide to Choosing the Right Vitamin Supplement (Newswise)
Tuesday February 20th 2007, 4:21 pm

How do you choose a safe and healthy multivitamin? Vitamins and Minerals: What You Need to Know, a new report from Harvard Medical School, offers advice. [News Source]

A New Guide to Choosing the Right Vitamin Supplement: Report From Harvard Medical School Separates the Essentials From … (U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News)
Tuesday February 20th 2007, 3:38 pm

How do you choose a safe and healthy multivitamin? "Vitamins and Minerals: What You Need to Know," a new report from Harvard Medical School, offers the following advice. [News Source]

Man seeking vitamins, deodorant sought in business burglary (The Clarion-Ledger)
Tuesday February 20th 2007, 1:46 pm

Vitamins and deodorant were the target in an overnight burglary of a Family Dollar in Jackson. [News Source]

Agriscience student puts rodents’ minds to the test (Gazette Extra Sports)
Tuesday February 20th 2007, 12:30 pm

WALWORTH-For the time being, he's called "Mr. Eight Seconds," because he once ran the 10-by-18 inch rodent maze in that amount of time. The speedy white mouse is one of seven engaged in Brianna Kinney's experiment on whether a food additive and vitamin can improve the rodents' brainpower. [News Source]

Home, home on the pasture.
Tuesday February 20th 2007, 12:00 pm

Pilsmaker's current half-dozen steers — on average he butchers 10 head a year — have about 10 acres at their disposal. In a feedlot, 1,000 cattle would be crammed into the same space. It takes his steers 24 months to get up to weight. [News Source]

A generation faces years of misery due to heart disease.
Tuesday February 20th 2007, 12:00 pm

Britain faces a health and pensions crisis as baby-boomers fall prey to heart disease and stroke, a leading heart charity said yesterday. [News Source]

We must all ‘do our bit’ for climate change.
Tuesday February 20th 2007, 12:00 pm

Anyone who still doubts that climate change is a very real and ever-present danger that threatens to turn the entire planet into something resembling the head of a burnt match by Easter needs to take a good look at themselves. [News Source]

Feeling fine? Let’s prove that you’re not.
Tuesday February 20th 2007, 12:00 pm

It is certainly odd and slightly alarming that two thirds of British adults should be defined as unwell enough to be medicated, based simply on the lipid levels in their blood. [News Source]

B5 can help with teeth grinding (Albany Times Union)
Tuesday February 20th 2007, 8:01 am

How much vitamin B5 helps reduce teeth grinding? Thanks. -- R.B., Lodi, Calif. A: Vitamin B5 -- aka pantethine and pantothenic acid -- turns into Coenzyme A in the body. [News Source]

Humans’ beef with livestock: a warmer planet.
Tuesday February 20th 2007, 8:00 am

American meat eaters are responsible for 1.5 more tons of carbon dioxide per person than vegetarians every year. [News Source]