Pesticides in Nepal. Nepalese were unaware of modern chemical pesticides until the 1950s and were practicing the traditional techniques of pest control. [News Source]

Physical Decline In The Elderly More Acute If Vitamin E Levels Are Low (Medical News Today) An elderly person whose vitamin E blood levels are low is more likely to experience faster physical decline than an elderly person whose levels are normal, say researchers from the Yale School of Medicine. Low serum concentration of vitamin E is an indication of poor nutrition. You can read about this in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), January 23rd issue. [News Source]

Low vitamin E levels associated with physical decline in elderly (News-Medical-Net) Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found that a low concentration of vitamin E in the blood is linked with physical decline in older persons. [News Source]

Lack of Vitamin E Linked to Physical Decline (MedicineNet.com) Title: Lack of Vitamin E Linked to Physical Decline Category: Health News Created: 1/23/2008 2:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 1/23/2008 [News Source]

Diet soda takes a hit in U study. University of Minnesota researchers have found that red meat, fried foods and diet soda all appear to raise the risk of developing metabolic syndrome, a condition that often paves the way for diabetes and heart disease. [News Source]

Low vitamin E levels linked to greater physical decline (Nutraingredients.com)

“The current study provides empirical evidence that a low concentration of vitamin E is associated with subsequent decline in physical function in a population-based sample of older persons living in the community,” wrote lead author Benedetta Bartali.

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Vitamin E good off physical decline (The Times of India) WASHINGTON: Vitamin E may help elderly people keep their vim and vigour, researchers said on January 22, 2008. The researchers measured levels of certain vitamins in the blood of 698 people ages 65 and above in Italy, and then used three tests -- a short walk, balance and standing up from a seated position -- to gauge their physical functioning. [News Source]

Care about the environment? Eat less meat. Last week, Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the UN's Nobel Prize-winning scientific panel on climate change, asked the world to "please eat less meat." [News Source]

Cold turkey vegetarian. On Jan. 7, the first day of the academic quarter, David Dyjack put out a challenge for other carnivores in his department to join him in going a month without meat. [News Source]

High mercury levels are found in tuna sushi. Recent laboratory tests found so much mercury in tuna sushi from 20 Manhattan stores and restaurants that at most of them, a regular diet of six pieces a week would exceed the levels considered acceptable by the Environmental Protection Agency. [News Source]

The myths of fruit. The idea of fruit being a shortcut to health has taken such a hold on our imaginations that the European market for what the industry calls "fresh, valued-added produce products", almost negligible a decade ago, is now worth €3bn. [News Source]

Food labels simplified in anti-obesity fight. A promise to introduce a single, simple food labelling scheme this year, ending the contradictory and confusing systems, will form the centrepiece of the government's anti-obesity drive today. [News Source]