How To … Get vitamins without a pill (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) In winter, when we spend more time indoors, it's difficult to get the vitamins we need to stay healthy. Here are some tips from Carolyn O'Neil, a registered dietitian and co-author of "The Dish on Eating Healthy and Being Fabulous!" [News Source]

VIDEO REPORT: Vitamin D and heart attacks (Bristol Herald Courier) Lack of exercise, smoking and fatty foods are well known risk factors for heart problems. But scientists think they have found another. Doctor Mallika Marshall says it's having too little of a key vitamin. [News Source]

Supermarket food ‘contains more fat and salt than quoted on label’. Ready meals and breakfast cereals often contain far more fat and salt than claimed on their packaging, according to new research that may make shoppers think twice about eating convenience food. [News Source]

Farming adds to greenhouse gases: report. An environmental report warns farming, fertilizer and diets are responsible for a large chunk of the pollution blamed for global warming. [News Source]

New Year resolutions could add years to your life. The millions of people resolving to live a healthier life in 2008 can take heart: four relatively simple, healthy behaviours may add 14 years to your life, say researchers. [News Source]

Low levels of ’sunlight’ vitamin raise heart risk. Lack of vitamin D has been blamed for everything from weakened bones to rickets, but now a study has revealed it increases the risk of a heart attack. [News Source]

Parents dispute vitamin suspension at Boiling Springs (The Sentinel) Andrew Figueiredo thought he was just taking a vitamin and a dietary supplement, but South Middleton School District administrators say he was taking medication without authorization and suspended him. [News Source]

Vitamin C fortification coming to dairy (Food Production Daily) The Israeli based firm said there is a huge amount of awareness by consumers of the benefits of vitamin C , and manufacturers are looking for ways to add the vitamin to different types of food products. [News Source]

Tiny specks of misery, both vile and useful. Viruses are, by definition, infectious parasitic agents tiny enough to pass through a microfilter that would trap bacteria and other microbes. It's easy to hate them. Yet they have also repaid us in ways we are just beginning to tally. [News Source]

Sunshine vitamin could reduce heart attack risk (IANS via Yahoo! India News) New York, Jan 9 (IANS) Vitamin D that is produced by skin exposed to sunlight can protect people from heart diseases and keep bones strong, according to a five-year study in the US though this runs contrary to the understood risk of skin cancer by over-exposure to sunlight. [News Source]