Skinny Nutritional Corp. Launches All New Next-Generation Zero-Calorie, Skinny Waters(R) (Centre Daily Times) Millions of consumers are looking for more health benefits in their beverages, minus the calories and sugar that pack on the pounds. Skinny Nutritional Corp. (OTCBB:SKNY.OB) today introduced a healthy solution with its new line of multi-functional Skinny Waters that deliver a variety of health benefits consumers are looking for in their beverages: weight control, multi-vitamins, antioxidants, ... [News Source]

Local Nonprofits Get Boost of Energy with Vitamin Donation (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) ----Watkins, Inc.: WHAT: Thousands of deserving seniors and needy community members throughout the Twin Cities will receive free multi vitamins through a donation partnership with Winona, Minn.-based Watkins, Inc., Metro Meals on Wheels, Hope for the City and the Minnesota Senior Federation. [News Source]

Can Vitamins Save the World? (Santa Barbara Independent) How Santa Barbara's Vitamin Angels is saving India and beyond, one dose at a time. [News Source]

Global rice shortage hits wallets in Silicon Valley. In a valley where nearly 30 percent of residents are of Asian descent, people are increasingly frustrated by the soaring cost of the staple of Asian cuisine. [News Source]

Food fraud warning from consumer watchdog. British shoppers are being conned out of £7 billion a year by unscrupulous producers who are dressing up cheap food as top quality fare, it has been claimed. A new study estimates that up to 10 per cent of food on the shelves of Britain’s shops is not what it seems. [News Source]

Want a boy? Eat your Wheaties. A new study of British mothers suggests that women who eat more--especially more breakfast cereal--at the time of conception are more likely to have boys. [News Source]

Can they swim? Experts are focusing on how environmental exposures affect men's fertility. [News Source]

Skipping breakfast may mean your baby is a girl. Women on low-calorie diets or who skip breakfast at the time of conception are more likely to give birth to girls than boys. [News Source]

The father of Earth Day. Senator Gaylord Nelson personally organized the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. [News Source]

Why some women can expect to die too early. In 180 counties across the country, women can expect to live to about 73, or about 1.3 years less than they did in 1983. [News Source]

Efficiency: the unloved solution that works. We've heard before -- time and again -- that we could use a lot less electricity, but we keep using more. [News Source]

Mom’s diet may play role in whether baby is boy or girl. Snips and snails and puppydog tails ... and cereal and bananas? That could be what little boys are made of, according to surprising new research suggesting that what a woman eats before pregnancy influences the gender of her baby. [News Source]