Preserve right to eat without guilt. A proposed ordinance being floated by Liz Kniss assumes that the people who develop NASA technology are easily stumped by restaurant menus. [News Source]

Boy collects 300 vitamin bottles for Afghan children (WIS News 10 Columbia) MIDLANDS, SC (WIS) - A member of the 218th is back home, answering a different call to duty. Spc. Rhett Ingram and his son have now collected 300 bottles of vitamins. Those vitamins are going to help children in Afghanistan. [News Source]

Something new under the sun.

The sun was a welcome sight for Mike Orlando, chair and CFO of Sunnyland Mills, who enjoys touting a new slogan: “Sun Dried in 1935, Solar Powered in 2007.”

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Anorexia is linked to prenatal estrogen. A study of opposite-sex twins finds that those males' risk factor is the same as the risk for females in general. In the population at large, women are 10 times as likely as men to have the eating disorder. [News Source]

Obesity blamed as more mothers die in childbirth. Giving birth in Britain remains very safe for mothers, but is becoming statistically riskier as a result of immigration, obesity, and disadvantage. [News Source]

Burnt toast could cause cancer. Scientists have now issued a worldwide alert advising people to avoid burnt toast or golden brown chips because they contain higher levels of the substance, acrylamide. [News Source]

Cancer cases ‘to increase a third by 2020′. Cases of cancer are expected to increase by a third by 2020 with nearly 300,000 people having the disease diagnosed each year, according to a landmark government report published yesterday. [News Source]

Common water pollutant could harm babies. A chemical pollutant that is commonly found in water supplies could harm nursing babies, even lead to mental impairment in extreme cases. [News Source]

Riots and hunger feared as demand for grain sends food costs soaring. The risks of food riots and malnutrition will surge in the next two years as the global supply of grain comes under more pressure than at any time in 50 years, in part due to competition from biofuels and climate change, a top researcher says. [News Source]

GeneLink Signs Exclusive Retail Licensing and Distribution Agreement with Solgar Vitamin & Herb (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) JERSEY CITY, N.J.----GeneLink, Inc. , a leading consumer genomics innovator announced today the signing of a multi-year exclusive retail licensing and distribution agreement with Solgar Vitamin and Herb of Leonia, New Jersey. [News Source]

Second Lonza vitamin B price hike (Food Navigator) 04/12/2007 - Lonza has said it will put up the price of vitamin B3 by as much as 17 per cent to fend off rising raw material costs. [News Source]