Latest News on Vitamins and Health

What can you do to protect yourself from breast cancer?.
Saturday September 29th 2007, 12:00 pm

What prospects are there for stopping this cancer that has spread across the American landscape like an invisible, invincible scourge? [News Source]

In a contaminated world, play isn’t the only hazard.
Saturday September 29th 2007, 12:00 pm

While the idea that a child has been playing with a Thomas the Tank Engine coated with lead-based paint may terrify parents, experts say the risk of being poisoned that way is actually not very high. [News Source]

What can you do to protect yourself from breast cancer?
Friday September 28th 2007, 8:00 pm

What prospects are there for stopping this cancer that has spread across the American landscape like an invisible, invincible scourge? [News Source]

New study finds global efforts to reduce pollution into Arctic may be working.
Friday September 28th 2007, 8:00 pm

A new study has found that levels of contaminants, including lead, mercury and PCBs, are all dropping in the bodies of some aboriginal mothers, suggesting that global efforts to reduce toxins accumulating in Arctic food animals may be paying off. [News Source]

Salmon, sweet potatoes among top ’super foods’.
Friday September 28th 2007, 4:00 pm

When it comes to nutritious food, you know what you need: more colorful, fresh fruits and veggies, healthy proteins, less sugar, sodium and saturated fat. [News Source]

Low rate of Type II diabetes in Bush puzzles scientists.
Friday September 28th 2007, 4:00 pm

The University of Alaska Fairbanks has received $11 million to continue studying the relationship between obesity, diabetes and the traditional diet of Natives in Western Alaska. [News Source]

Somes schools, students make a hash of anti-junk food law.
Friday September 28th 2007, 4:00 pm

Despite a new law designed to ban the sale of junk food at California schools, the kiosk at Santa Clara High is stocked with chocolate-chip cookies, the lunch window at Novato High serves up potato chips, and the concession stand at Albany High is doing a booming business in Cheetos. [News Source]

SeedQuest - Central information website for the global seed industry (SeedQuest)
Friday September 28th 2007, 1:57 pm

Two new varieties of southernpeas, WhipperSnapper and GreenPack-DG, boast attractive colors, pleasing textures and flavors, plus nutrients like protein and folate, a B vitamin. [News Source]

Vitamin K, an Essential Nutrient (The Epoch Times)
Friday September 28th 2007, 12:25 pm

Vitamin K is probably best known for its role in blood clotting. However, it has many other functions.Studies have demonstrated vitamin K's role in bone health, the health of arteries, as we... [News Source]

Vitamin A, deworming pills supplied to highland children (Việt Nam News)
Friday September 28th 2007, 9:07 am

HA NOI — Over 1.8 million children in the northern mountainous and Central Highlands provinces will benefit from a project providing supplementary vitamin A and deworming pills, which started yesterday in Thai Nguyen Province. [News Source]

Commission hit with maximum vitamins transparency slur (Food Production Daily)
Friday September 28th 2007, 7:21 am

28/09/2007 - Lobbyists have criticised the European Commission for failing to be " open or transparent " in making a document about the maximum mineral and vitamin levels freely available. [News Source]

Saving on vitamins (Bankrate.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Friday September 28th 2007, 6:00 am

Often the ingredients are the same in discount versions.

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