Scientists Find Missing Link To Understand How Plants Make Vitamin C (Science Daily) Vitamin C is possibly the most important small molecule whose biosynthetic pathway remained a mystery. That is until now. A group of Dartmouth and UCLA researchers, who normally work on genes involved in aging and cancer in animals, discovered the last piece of the puzzle. [News Source]

Vitamin Shoppe sued over product (The Record) Two federal lawsuits accuse Vitamin Shoppe of fraudulently selling a supplement that contained unacceptably high levels of lead. The suits claim that the North Bergen-based vitamin vendor failed to warn consumers about the potentially harmful effects of its "Especially For Women" multivitamins. [News Source]

How Much Vitamin D is Too Much? Too Little? (RedNova) Q: I read your column "Vitamin D can come in two types" on the Vitamin D Council's Web site, in which you said the recommended safe upper limit for vitamin D was 2,000 IU daily. [News Source]

Health gap ‘widest in retirement.’ A lifetime on a low wage physically ages a person eight years earlier than high earners. [News Source]

Poor Physical Performance In Older Adults Linked To Low Vitamin D Levels (Medical News Today) Older adults who don't get enough vitamin D - either from their diets or exposure to the sun - may be at increased risk for poor physical performance and disability, according to new research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues."With a growing older population, we need to identify better ways to reduce the risk of disability," said lead author Denise Houston, Ph.D. ... [News Source]