Meitus: Mercury issue won’t go away. Between the mercury issue, farm-raised salmon with PCBs and sustainability, it's easier to make other choices than fish. [News Source]

Ware’s the beef: Litchfield farm’s cows are anything but mad. Besides his cattle being antibiotic and growth-hormone free, Morosani at his Connecticut farm said the meat is healthier because it's packed with the central fatty acids that humans need, but can't produce on their own. [News Source]

Prison study could show better diet reduces violence. A three-year trial in British prisons is to be launched to establish whether improvements in the diets of inmates can cut violence and antisocial behaviour. [News Source]

Vitamins and minerals key to cutting crime rate in UK: Scientist (New Kerala) London, Jan.29 : Oxford University scientists have suggested that a daily dose of vitamins and minerals, besides an improved diet could reduce rates of crime and anti-social behaviour by as much as a third. [News Source]

Vitamins May Help Cancer-Related Pain (CBS News) High-potency vitamins, melatonin supplements, and other complementary remedies may help to relieve the debilitating pain and fatigue experienced by most people with advanced pancreatic cancer, a new study suggests. [News Source]

Vitamins to ease criminal minds - study (Herald Sun) YOUNG criminals locked up in British jails are to start popping daily vitamin pills to see if they can improve their behaviour. [News Source]

Vitamins to ease criminal minds - study (Herald Sun) YOUNG criminals locked up in British jails are to start popping daily vitamin pills to see if they can improve their behaviour. [News Source]

Vitamins May Help Cancer-Related Pain (MedicineNet.com) Title: Vitamins May Help Cancer-Related Pain Category: Health News Created: 1/29/2008 Last Editorial Review: 1/29/2008 [News Source]

Vitamin E for a Sound Mind and Body (BellaOnline) Vitamin E is an important preventative for the inevitable decline of mind and body as we age. [News Source]

The burden of treating girls’ bodies as the enemy.

Our relationship with food, which surely should be so simple, seems to have become incredibly complex. Up to 39 per cent of the population may be overweight, but eating disorders are widespread, too, and although they affect people of all ages and both sexes, they are more common in adolescent girls and young women.

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Caution is prudent in ethanol development. Concerns about ethanol's effects on groundwater aren't new -- last year a new plant in Granite Falls depleted the groundwater supply so quickly that it had to start using water from the Minnesota River. [News Source]

B.C. Interior given an F grade on pollution. The British Columbia Interior, Ontario, and Quebec received an F for air pollution in the latest report card on health, which says air pollution is now a year-long threat to the heart health of Canadians. [News Source]