Aloe ready for bioavailability applications (Nutraingredients.com) 7/26/2007 - A study demonstrating the potential for aloe vera to enhance vitamin C and B12 bioavailability could give manufacturers of the ingredient another angle along which to promote it. [News Source]

Prof using penguin remains to measure antarctic ice movement.

Climate change is nothing new. For thousands, perhaps millions of years, Antarctica’s massive ice sheet - 5.5 million square miles - has advanced and retreated as the earth’s atmosphere cooled and warmed. Yet, until recently, there was no precise way to measure the shifting interface between ice and open water.

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Obesity spreads in social circles as trends do, study indicates. Obesity appears to spread from one person to another like a virus or a fad, researchers reported yesterday in a first-of-its-kind study that helps explain -- and could help fight -- one of the nation's biggest public health problems. [News Source]

Study: Obesity is ’socially contagious’. If your friends and family get fat, chances are you will too, researchers report in a startling new study that suggests obesity is "socially contagious" and can spread easily from person to person. [News Source]

Is obesity contagious? Findings from a new study have prompted researchers to call obesity a "socially contagious" disease in which a sense of what constitutes a normal body weight passes from one person to the next. [News Source]

Can your friends make you fat? A study in this week's New England Journal of Medicine finds that social networks have an even greater effect on chances of becoming obese than genes do. [News Source]

Diesel pollution ‘clogs arteries’. Diesel fumes appear to combine with artery-clogging fats to raise the risk of heart disease, research suggests. [News Source]

Study links diesel exhaust to heart attacks. If you're concerned about cholesterol, you may want to avoid air pollution. [News Source]

Pollution-cholesterol link to heart disease seen. New research suggests that people with high cholesterol are especially vulnerable to heart disease when exposed to diesel exhaust and other ultra-fine particles that are common urban air pollutants. [News Source]