There Is No Clear Proof That Vitamin E Oil Helps Scars Heal (Hartford Courant) Q. I think you have alarmed people unnecessarily with your thoughtless remarks on vitamin E. You said that applying vitamin E oil to scars did not help them heal faster. You should print a correction, because pure vitamin E on incisions promotes healing. [News Source]

How Humans Make Up For An ‘Inborn’ Vitamin C Deficiency (Science Daily) A new study appears to explain how humans, along with other higher primates, guinea pigs and fruit bats, get by with what some have called an "inborn metabolic error": an inability to produce vitamin C from glucose. [News Source]

Shake on oregano, shake off disease? Recent studies have uncovered more than 100 compounds with antioxidant activity in herbs and spices. [News Source]

No, you can’t just pollute our groundwater. Across the nation, pockets of groundwater have become so polluted from leaking underground gasoline storage tanks, that drinking water has been ruined, and multi-million dollar cleanups will take decades to redress the contamination. [News Source]

A low-carbon diet. The Massachusetts Carbon Action Network encourages families to take simple, no-cost or low-cost steps to slash household emissions of CO2. [News Source]

Folic acid ‘helps to keep sperm healthy.’ A folate-rich diet may protect men against producing abnormal sperm and children with genetic abnormalities, a study suggests. [News Source]

How humans make up for an ‘inborn’ vitamin C deficiency (EurekAlert!)

A new study appears to explain how humans, along with other higher primates, guinea pigs and fruit bats, get by with what some have called an “inborn metabolic error”: an inability to produce vitamin C from glucose.

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More News (Daily Breeze) Sorry, no items are currently available. The Hartz Mountain Corp. is recalling 739 bottles of Hartz Vitamin Care for Cats because the product might be contaminated with salmonella, which could infect pets and people who come into contact with the cat vitamins. [News Source]

Exposure to plasticizers and other chemicals in childhood may hike adult cancer risks, report says. In the decades following World War II, both breast cancer rates and the use of synthetic chemicals soared in the United States and a new report contends there's a strong connection between the two. [News Source]

Nordic Naturals Named Top-Rated Supplement Brand in ConsumerLab.com Survey of Vitamin and Supplement Users! (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Nordic Naturals was recently named the "Top-Rated Supplement Brand" by the 2008 ConsumerLab.com Survey of Vitamin and Supplement Users. Receiving two recognitions, #1 Rated Overall Brand for Consumer Satisfaction and #1 Rated Health Food Store Brand for Consumer Satisfaction, Nordic Naturals had the highest customer satisfaction ratings of all brands considered, throughout 8 different ... [News Source]

Study finds vitamin B helps men father healthy children (Express India) Men are more likely to father healthy children if they eat a diet rich in vitamin B, a new study has revealed. [News Source]