What Women Really Need to Know About Vitamins (ABC News) The FDA Has Not Updated Its Daily Intake Recommendations Since 1968 [News Source]

Shopping cart (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) What's new on shelves: Diet Coke Plus with vitamins and minerals [News Source]

Researchers finally find out how plants manufacture Vitamin C (ANI via Yahoo! India News) Washington, Apr 30 (ANI): A group of UCLA and Dartmouth researchers have finally found out how plants manufacture Vitamin C. The team discovered it while working on a particular type of gene in worms. "We were working on an interesting gene in worms," said Dr. Steven Clarke of the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. "One insight led ... [News Source]

New VitaPaw Vitamin Water a Convenient and Healthy Choice for Pets (PR Web) Health conscious pet owners can now choose VitaPaw (www.vitapaw.com), a vitamin enhanced water for animals. Ready to serve, made with finest ingredients and purified water, VitaPaw provides convenience for the pet owner and is part of a healthy lifestyle. (PRWeb Apr 30, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/U3VtbS1GYWx1LUluc2UtUHJvZi1NYWduLVplcm8= [News Source]

Web rumors fuel niacin overdoses (Denver Post) More young people are gulping huge amounts of the vitamin, thinking they can fool a drug test. Instead, they get sick. [News Source]

New VitaPaw Vitamin Water a Convenient and Healthy Choice for Pets (PRWeb via Yahoo! News) Health conscious pet owners can now choose VitaPaw (www.vitapaw.com), a vitamin enhanced water for animals. Ready to serve, made with finest ingredients and purified water, VitaPaw provides convenience for the pet owner and is part of a healthy lifestyle. [News Source]

Can soaking up the sun keep you healthy? (The Nashua Telegraph) Health | Experts debate whether catching rays is good way to get important nutrient vitamin D. ... - By HATTIE BERNSTEIN Telegraph Staff [News Source]

Ribena heroes to be youth parliamentarians (Scoop.co.nz) The two students who exposed the food giant GlaxoSmithkline's false claims about vitamin C levels in Ribena will be youth parliamentarians this year. [News Source]

Control of alternative RNA splicing and gene expression by eukaryotic riboswitches (Nature) Bacteria make extensive use of riboswitches to sense metabolites and control gene expression, and typically do so by modulating premature transcription termination or translation initiation. The most widespread riboswitch class known in bacteria responds to the coenzyme thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP), which is a derivative of vitamin B1. Representatives of this class have also been identified in ... [News Source]

The good, the bad and the green. Sales of ethical food are rocketing, and “better for you and the planet” logos are popping up everywhere. But is this a big step forward, or is it all a big con? [News Source]

Hiwassee River is posted for mercury. The Department of Environment and Conservation announced Thursday the Hiwassee River was added to Tennessee’s list of precautionary fish consumption advisories due to mercury contamination. [News Source]

Green foods equal green dollars for grocers. Supermarkets are spurred by a voracious consumer demand that has pushed organic food sales from about $3.6 billion in 1997 to $14.6 billion in 2005, according to the latest industry data. [News Source]