Antioxidants no use against degenerative eye disease (News-Medical-Net) After analysing a range of research Australian scientists say a diet rich in antioxidant vitamins and minerals does not seem to prevent the degenerative eye disease known as age related macular degeneration (AMD). [News Source]

The Vitamin Shoppe Announces Comparable Store Net Sales and Total Net Sales for the Third Quarter and Nine Months … (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) NORTH BERGEN, N.J.----The Vitamin Shoppe announced that total net sales for the company increased $15.4 million, or 12.9%, to $135.1 million for the third quarter ended September 29, 2007 as compared with $119.7 million for the same period last year. [News Source]

The Vitamin Shoppe Announces Comparable Store Net Sales and Total Net Sales for the Third Quarter and Nine Months … (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) NORTH BERGEN, N.J.----The Vitamin Shoppe announced that total net sales for the company increased $15.4 million, or 12.9%, to $135.1 million for the third quarter ended September 29, 2007 as compared with $119.7 million for the same period last year. [News Source]

Preventing childhood obesity: two year follow-up results from the Christchurch obesity prevention programme in schools. Three years after a year-long education effort to promote a healthy diet and discourage consumption of carbonated drinks, researchers found no effect on how many children were overweight. [News Source]

Diet and fat: A severe case of mistaken consensus. In 1988, the surgeon general, C. Everett Koop, proclaimed ice cream to a be public-health menace right up there with cigarettes. [News Source]

Grass-fed vs. grain-fed meats? They do differ. The cows in the feed lot are fed mostly grain, which is not the food nature prescribed for them. Because of the digestive challenges that a grain diet causes and because of the crowded, stressful conditions in a feed lot, these cows require more antibiotics. [News Source]

The new coal age. The government says it wants a low-carbon economy. Yet on a green hilltop in south Wales, despite huge opposition from locals, diggers have begun excavating what will be the largest opencast coal mine in Britain. [News Source]

Study to examine social, environmental impact on development on children. Starting next fall, about 1,000 Hidalgo County children will participate in a large-scale research project following American children from the womb to their 21st birthday. [News Source]

Job strain can be risk factor for subsequent heart attacks. Workplace stress may be as hazardous to your heart health as smoking, high cholesterol and other conventional risk factors for cardiovascular disease. [News Source]

Low-fat diet may cut ovarian cancer risk, research says. Cutting dietary fat may also cut the risk of ovarian cancer, says a study of nearly 40,000 older women that found the first hard evidence that menu changes protect against this particularly lethal cancer. [News Source]

Pitt scientist opens window on decades of suppressed or ignored cancer research. Dr. Devra Davis's new book claims that industry has hidden or ignored toxic hazards in the workplace, cigarettes and beauty products. [News Source]

The changing face of breast cancer. Previously a malady that mostly afflicted white, affluent women in the industrial hubs of North America and Western Europe, breast cancer is everywhere. Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America have all seen their caseloads spike. [News Source]