A Canadian medical society recommends pregnant women and nursing moms boost their intake of vitamin D dramatically (Science News) Canadian pediatricians certainly aren't shirking controversy when it comes to a vitamin guideline they've developed for pregnant women and nursing moms. [News Source]

Extra Doses of Vitamins C, E Don’t Guard Against Preeclampsia (HealthCentral.com) Copyright © 2007 ScoutNews LLC. All rights reserved. FRIDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Taking extra doses of vitamins E and C doesn't reduce the chances of the blood pressure disorder preeclampsia in women who are at risk for the dangerous pregnancy complication, a new report finds. [News Source]

Extra Doses of Vitamins C, E Don’t Guard Against Preeclampsia (HealthDay via Yahoo! News) FRIDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Taking extra doses of vitamins E and C doesn't reduce the chances of the blood pressure disorder preeclampsia in women who are at risk for the dangerous pregnancy complication, a new report finds. [News Source]

Nigeria: Stealing of Vitamin A - Nafdac Slams Govt Stores (AllAfrica.com) National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and its development partners, yesterday in Abuja accused government stores in the country of aiding and abetting pilfering and diversion of donated high dose Vitamin A capsules. [News Source]

Beware of eating fish from Bay Bridge oil spill area. Gov. Schwarzenegger is trying to keep oil out of Californians' diets. [News Source]

FDA is urged to toughen rules on salt. A consumer group prodded the Food and Drug Administration yesterday to regulate salt as a food additive, arguing that excessive salt consumption by Americans may be responsible for more than 100,000 deaths a year. [News Source]

Will salt be next on the hit list? Best known for deciding whether medications are safe and effective, the Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to crack down on plain old salt, which doctors say is harmful in the quantities Americans consume. [News Source]

A threat to both mom and her baby. Amid all the hand-wringing over the explosion of diabetes in America, the spread of the temporary type that afflicts pregnant women has gotten scant attention. As many as 8 percent of women now develop diabetes during pregnancy—perhaps twice the percentage of a decade or two ago. [News Source]

Worst pollution risks increasingly indoors. More and more chemicals and unhealthful substances are embedded in our daily lives. And they swirl together inside our tightly built personal spaces to create new, and very personal, toxic hot spots: our homes. [News Source]

Vitamin E Could Help 40% of Diabetics Ward off Heart Attacks According to the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) HAIFA, Israel & NEW YORK----Vitamin E supplements can significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and related deaths for diabetics who carry a particular version of a gene, according to researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and the Clalit Health Services in Israel. [News Source]

3rd vitamin store robbery in as many days (The Times of Northwest Indiana) HOBART | Police say the same man may be responsible for armed robberies at three health and nutrition stores over the past three days. [News Source]

3rd vitamin store robbery in as many days (The Times of Northwest Indiana) HOBART | Police say the same man may be responsible for armed robberies at three health and nutrition stores over the past three days. [News Source]