Charter school puts the vo-tech back into curriculum (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) Angel Kamara went back to school on Monday, a month ahead of most other high school sophomores. Asked how it felt to be rising early on an August morning for the first day of school, Kamara rolled her eyes and replied: "Oooh, I need vitamins." But the Brooklyn Park teen is part of the inaugural class of more than 200 students at the new Dunwoody Academy charter school in north Minneapolis because ... [News Source]

Source: Gatlin Thought Injection Was B12 (ABC News) Source: Sprinter Justin Gatlin Got Injection He Thought Was Vitamin B12 Before Positive Test [News Source]

Source: Gatlin thought injection was B12 (Lexington Herald-Leader) The top assistant to track coach Trevor Graham gave Justin Gatlin an injection, which he believed to be vitamin B12, two weeks before the world record-sharing sprinter tested positive for steroids. After Randall Evans gave Gatlin the shot, the sprinter was given what he was told were anti-inflammatory pills as a follow-up, a person with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press on Monday. ... [News Source]

What Ails You: Managing cholesterol levels (Desert Dispatch Online) Cholesterol, a waxy fat-like substance, is everywhere in our bodies. Our skin, muscles, nerves, all of our organs are made up to some degree of cholesterol. Cholesterol is also used to manufacture hormones, Vitamin D, and the bile that helps us digest our food. [News Source]

Source: Sprinter Justin Gatlin Got Injection He Thought Was Vitamin B12 Before Positive Test (Reading Eagle) The top assistant to track coach Trevor Graham gave Justin Gatlin an injection, which he believed to be vitamin B12, two weeks before the world record-sharing sprinter tested positive for steroids. [News Source]

Folic acid doubts (Los Angeles Times) Fortifying foods with the vitamin has reduced certain birth defects but may have raised rates of colon cancer. [News Source]

Gov. Crist hopes to spur biofuels in Florida. Some scientists are skeptical as Gov. Charlie Crist spends millions of taxpayer dollars to nurture a plant-based biofuel industry — one of the most expensive weapons in his war on global warming. [News Source]

Bad reactions make people more aware of diet threats. For thousands of Mid-South students with peanut and other food allergies, the back-to-school supply list includes syringes filled with emergency doses of adrenaline. [News Source]

Too Much (Good-for-You) Folate Might Be Really Bad (US News & World Report) Six decades ago, Harvard physician Sidney Farber discovered to his disappointment that a synthetic form of the vitamin folate called folic acid, recently shown to prevent cancers in lab animals, actually accelerated the disease in children dying of leukemia. Making good of his inconvenient discovery, Farber went on to develop folate-blocking compounds that became some of the world's first ... [News Source]

Taliban threatens more kidnappings (AP via Yahoo! News)

The Taliban will keep kidnapping foreigners in Afghanistan, a purported spokesman for the group said Monday, adding that the Afghan and U.S. presidents were responsible for the fate of 21 South Korean hostages.

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Is it safe to eat what you catch? (Escanaba Daily Press) ESCANABA — Fish is generally low in calories, saturated fat and cholesterol, making it a good overall substitute for poultry and meat in your diet. It is a good source of protein and several vitamins and minerals. [News Source]

Food that travels well. While there will always be good reasons to encourage the growth of sustainable local food systems, we must also allow them to develop in tandem with what could be their equally sustainable global counterparts. [News Source]