Latest News on Vitamins and Health

Heart risk to children, 4, from salt.
Saturday September 08th 2007, 12:00 pm

Children as young as four are increasing their risk of heart disease and stroke in later life because they are eating too much salt, researchers warned yesterday. [News Source]

Study lnks bad foods to hyperactive kids.
Saturday September 08th 2007, 12:00 pm

A new study links artificial food dyes and preservatives to an increase in hyperactivity in kids. [News Source]

Shuster pushes for flight 93 land transfer.
Saturday September 08th 2007, 12:00 pm

U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Hollidaysburg, is giving the Environmental Protection Agency until Tuesday, the sixth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, to grant a waiver for the manganese discharge at the Flight 93 crash site in Pennsylvania. [News Source]

Don’t bite the dust.
Saturday September 08th 2007, 12:00 pm

Through exposure routes that remain somewhat sketchy, PBDEs have been entering the U.S. food supply. But what's emerging as an apparently far greater source of human exposure is ingestion of PBDE-laced house dust. [News Source]

Vitamin D deficiency poses risk in pregnancy (The Buffalo News)
Saturday September 08th 2007, 10:14 am

LOS ANGELES — Vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of life-threatening preeclampsia during pregnancy fivefold, Pennsylvania researchers said Friday. [News Source]

Vitamin D protects during pregnancy (Baltimore Sun)
Saturday September 08th 2007, 8:19 am

Study finds that deficiency increases risk of preeclampsia Vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of life-threatening preeclampsia during pregnancy five-fold, Pennsylvania researchers reported yesterday. [News Source]

Vitamin D deficiency increases risk in pregnancy, study finds (Seattle Times)
Saturday September 08th 2007, 3:27 am

Vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of life-threatening pre-eclampsia during pregnancy fivefold, researchers reported Friday. Some researchers have suspected... [News Source]

Vitamin D deficiency boosts risk of preeclampsia, study finds (Los Angeles Times)
Saturday September 08th 2007, 3:17 am

Women with very low levels of the nutrient had a five times higher chance of developing the life-threatening disorder. Vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of life-threatening preeclampsia during pregnancy five-fold, Pennsylvania researchers reported Friday. [News Source]

Low levels of vitamin D linked to pregnancy risk (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Saturday September 08th 2007, 1:24 am

Vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of life-threatening pre-eclampsia during pregnancy five fold, Pennsylvania researchers reported yesterday. ... [News Source]