Latest News on Vitamins and Health

Vitamin D casts cancer prevention in new light.
Saturday April 28th 2007, 12:00 pm

A bombshell U.S. study will tie cancer incidence rate to lack of sunshine rather than pollutants. Not everyone is willing to jump on the vitamin D bandwagon just yet. [News Source]

Eat local movement competes with organic craze.
Saturday April 28th 2007, 12:00 pm

As the organic movement continues its march toward the mainstream, a journey that includes feedlots that house thousands of dairy cows and produce imported from China, it is losing some of its earliest followers. [News Source]

A green gift from pigs.
Saturday April 28th 2007, 12:00 pm

Take liquid hog manure and turn it into solid organic fertilizer -- a relatively simple process -- and you eliminate the most harmful greenhouse gas it would otherwise produce. [News Source]

New toxins found in fried food.
Saturday April 28th 2007, 12:00 pm

Steaming, boiling or stewing foods such as meat and cheese is healthier than grilling or frying it, say scientists researching a new class of toxic compounds which have been implicated in diabetes, heart complaints and Alzheimer's disease. [News Source]

Pollinator problems.
Saturday April 28th 2007, 12:00 pm

Honeybee populations are on the decline and scientists are racing to find the reason. [News Source]

Vitamin Facts (RedNova)
Saturday April 28th 2007, 6:14 am

BALANCED DIET: Are multivitamins necessary? [News Source]

Scientists find missing link to understand how plants make vitamin C (PhysOrg)
Saturday April 28th 2007, 5:24 am

Vitamin C is possibly the most important small molecule whose biosynthetic pathway remained a mystery. That is until now. [News Source]

FDI s proactive fraud detection and (InfoBolsa)
Saturday April 28th 2007, 12:07 am

Tracy Coenen Challenges Usana President On Distributor Loss Comments And A 28/04/2007 02:13:00 Business Wire in stark contrast with everything else published by the company, with the following as a few examples: -- Recruiting literature touting "True Health, True Wealth" -- Recruiting literature overwhelmingly aimed not at vitamin consumers, but at those who want to build businesses -- Company ... [News Source]