Tried & Tested: Getting your vitamins in the bathroom (The New Straits Times) AS far as spas go, trying to figure out the target demographic can be a bit tricky. [News Source]

Natural Medicine: B vitamins and heart disease (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) BE HEART HEALTHY: B VITAMINS AND HEART DISEASE [News Source]

Macular health vitamin helps vision problems (The Enterprise Ledger)

BIRMINGHAM - For the 76 million baby boomers born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1964, the fear of facing permanent vision loss due to Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is very real.

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Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler. A sea change in the consumption of a resource that Americans take for granted may be in store -- something cheap, plentiful, widely enjoyed and a part of daily life. And it isn't oil. It's meat. [News Source]

Fishermen face new, increasing threat from jumbo squid. Marine biologists have known for years that 100-pound squid have quietly made their way from the tropical regions of the Pacific to the cooler reaches of California. [News Source]

Organic farming gets its day in sun. Several hundred farmers, scientists, environmentalists and vendors gathered at Rutgers University yesterday for the 18th annual conference of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey. [News Source]

Massachusetts issues fish contaminant level advisory. Even though it's winter, people still fish. And many eat what they catch. [News Source]

Monsanto is shifting its focus from corn to new biotech soybeans. After years of focusing on corn, Missouri's Monsanto Co. is developing new biotech soybeans. Monsanto's leaders also are thinking as much about demand from China's growing middle class and from heath-conscious Americans as they are about feeding biofuel facilities. [News Source]

Scientists study possible link between ethanol byproduct and E. coli. A nationwide surge in beef recalls has pointed the finger at an unlikely culprit - the nation's fuel ethanol industry. [News Source]

A dying breed. The world's food supply is increasingly dependent on a small and narrowing list of highly engineered breeds: the Holstein, the Large White pig and the Rhode Island Red and Leghorn chickens. There's a risk that future diseases could ravage them. [News Source]

Vitamin D Deficiency Study Raises New Questions About Disease And Supplements (Science Daily) Low blood levels of vitamin D have long been associated with disease, and the assumption has been that vitamin D supplements may protect against disease. However, this new research demonstrates that ingested vitamin D is immunosuppressive and that low blood levels of vitamin D may be actually a result of the disease process. Supplementation may make the disease worse. Increased vitamin D intake ... [News Source]