Eat your greens, dads-to-be. It’s not all about mom. A new and surprising study suggests that what the father eats may also play a big role in an offspring's well-being. [News Source]

We’ve been here before, and it wasn’t pretty the first time. While the Arctic melts and our glaciers disappear, one by one, like guests at a late-night party, Canada's political elites remain the only guys too drunk to recognize that the climate is changing. [News Source]

Sleep deprived pay the price for shift work. Trying to outsmart our circadian rhythms may have grim health results: obesity, cancer, mental illness and gastrointestinal problems. [News Source]

The costs of meat and fish. Industrial meat production and fish harvests have dropped the economic cost of animal proteins in recent decades. But much of that fiscal savings has come at the expense of the environment. [News Source]

In Thailand, pollution from shrimp farms threatens a fragile environment. Shrimp ponds have become the most recognizable symbol of coastal degradation in Trang, a southwestern Thai province bordering the Andaman Sea. [News Source]

The seeds of aridity: Crops for a parched world. Thousands of projects are aimed at tackling one of the world's most pressing needs: helping farmers keep their crops growing as water supplies grow scarce. [News Source]

No evidence that vitamin E heals scars (Bradenton Herald) Other natural approaches include magnesium, B vitamins (especially riboflavin) and herbs such as feverfew or butterbur. We provide far more detail on treatments for headaches and migraines in our book "Best Choices From The People's Pharmacy." It is available from libraries, bookstores or our Web site. [News Source]