Vita Source sells vitamins and minerals (Wisconsin State Journal) A new Madison business aims to provide area residents with the vitamins and minerals they need to lead an active, healthy life. Vita Source, 2623 Monroe St. in the Knickerbocker Square Shopping center, offers guidance and high quality products to supplement your diet. [News Source]

Vita Source sells vitamins and minerals (Wisconsin State Journal) A new Madison business aims to provide area residents with the vitamins and minerals they need to lead an active, healthy life. Vita Source, 2623 Monroe St. in the Knickerbocker Square Shopping center, offers guidance and high quality products to supplement your diet. Owner Raymond Yingling said he often recommends a change of diet to correct health problems that are the result of either poor ... [News Source]

New rules for vitamins (The Record) BOHEMIA, N.Y. -- Harvey Kamil swallows 50 pills a day. A firm believer in natural remedies, Kamil, 63, takes these vitamins and other supplements in hopes of maintaining a healthy heart, strong bones and an immune system equipped to fight everything from colds to cancer. [News Source]

MyFox Birmingham | How Good Is ‘Diet Coke’ with Vitamins Really? (FOX 6 News Birmingham) The newest addition to caffeinated beverages is 'Diet Coke' infused with vitamins. FOX6 News Anchor Devon Walsh tests how healthy the ne... Two years after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast survivor Elizabeth Coleman looks forward to creating new memories in Birmingham. FOX... [News Source]

How-To Guide for a Healthier Body (WebMD) You know you need vitamins for good health, but which ones and how much? Here's a rundown of the most important vitamins and minerals. Part 1 of a series. [News Source]

Homegrown and market-ready.

Since 2005, Scotch Mountain Meats have been promoting a local market for their naturally raised meats in a move away from the modern conventions of the North American meat industry.

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£228,000 to help allotments grow. Scotland's first organic allotment site has won nearly a quarter of a million pounds to encourage people from deprived communities to take up gardening. [News Source]

The looming food crisis. Growing biofuel crops may help fight global warming - but it is driving up food prices throughout the world, making life increasingly hard in developing countries, where water shortages, natural disasters and population growth equal a recipe for disaster. [News Source]

Ethanol byproduct aids farmers, ranchers. The rising demand for corn to make renewable fuel might be hurting some dairy farmers and beef ranchers, but others are finding advantages to staying close to ethanol plants. [News Source]

Rush for biofuels is taking toll on food crops. Land that was once used to grow food is increasingly being turned over to biofuels. [News Source]

Nipping childhood obesity in the bud. Pregnant women with gestational diabetes have a greater chance of having obese offspring, but treatment can cut the risk [News Source]

Obesity rates pop buttons. Despite all the talk about diet and exercise, obesity rates went up in 31 states last year, according to the Trust for America's Health, a nonprofit organization fixated on the nation's expanding waistline. [News Source]