Vitamin Angels and Vitamin Shoppe fight VAD (Nutraingredients.com) 10/25/2007 - The nutraceutical industry's charity, Vitamin Angels, has made a large step towards eradicating the vitamin A deficiency that can lead to blindness in children. [News Source]

Houston faces the challenges of going green. A century ago, when Gulf breezes were Houston's only air conditioners and good dinners began with food from local farms, no one talked about living green. [News Source]

New York City reintroduces calorie rule. The Bloomberg administration, in its continuing fight against obesity, reintroduced a measure yesterday to force chain restaurants to display calorie information on their menus or menu boards. [News Source]

Soil around tar ponds danger to children. Children who play in the Sydney dirt are putting themselves at a higher risk of getting cancer, a researcher warns parents in the communities neighbouring the city's tar ponds and coke ovens site. [News Source]

Where they’re making the white stuff - organic style. This year Home Farm, which is the only entirely self-sustaining organic farm in Europe, started producing its own milk for the public. [News Source]

Fish consumption guidelines set. The Department of Health said last week that the benefits of eating fish outweigh potential risks. [News Source]

As players bulk up, health risks rise. Forty-five percent of Iowa prep linemen overweight, raising potential for problems later. [News Source]

Transgenic crops may hurt aquatic ecosystems. Agricultural waste from genetically modified corn in U.S. streams is found to impair aquatic insect growth. [News Source]

Sister study looks at cancer rates among siblings. Liz Dauphine, Bernice Drummer and Vicki Delhomme have something in common. None of them have had breast cancer - but they all have sisters who do. [News Source]

Sweet spuds (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

With their orange flesh and dark-amber skin, sweet potatoes are easy to spot. They can be long and tapered or squat with rounded ends. Filled with vitamins B6 and C, as well as dietary fiber and beta-carotene, they’re a delicious alternative to white potatoes. After buying sweet potatoes, store them loose in a cool, dark place for up to a month. Their buttery flesh and sugary taste make them …

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Tidbits: How much is Plus? (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) How much is Plus? As if we didn't have enough ways to pay too much for a drink of water, Coca-Cola now offers its Dasani brand in a vitamin-fortified variation with ginseng and guarana. Each 8-ounce serving of Dasani Plus contains 10 percent of the recommended amounts of vitamins B3, B6 and B12 and chromium. That doesn't come cheap: At one discount supermarket, where regular Dasani is $1.39 for ... [News Source]

Don’t be a victim of pharmacy errors (CNN.com) When Chanda Givens found out she was pregnant, she did what most expectant mothers would do: She went out to fill her prescription for prenatal vitamins. [News Source]