Vitamins and Supplements (WSLS Newschannel 10 Roanoke) When you buy a vitamin or supplement, do you really know what you are getting? Dr. Mark Greenawald: How do you know? You do some reading do some research. [News Source]

Vitamin D In Dairy Products (The Post-Journal) 5/13/2008 - Question: I’ve noticed that milk is cited as a primary source of vitamin D. Is this true of other dairy products too? Answer: Food sources that naturally supply vitamin D — a vitamin that is critical in helping our bodies properly use calcium — are limited. [News Source]

Vision: Vitamin E Benefit for Cataracts in Dispute (New York Times) A large 10-year randomized trial has found no difference in cataract formation between those who took vitamin E and those who did not. [News Source]

With the Sun Coming Out, Get Your Vitamin D (The Morning News) Once thought of as helping only to develop strong bones, vitamin D is now believed to serve many purposes in the human body. A deficiency of the vitamin has been linked to several diseases and disorders. [News Source]

Minyard, Carnival, Sack ‘n Save supermarkets offer free prenatal vitamins (Dallas Morning News) Prenatal vitamins packed with the extra folic acid, calcium and iron that are essential to the health of mothers and babies have just become more affordable (free, in fact) thanks to an initiative from Minyard Food Stores Inc. [News Source]

A Quarter Can Prevent a Child from Going Blind (Centre Daily Times) You can't buy many newspapers for a quarter anymore, but with that same twenty-five cents you can buy a year's supply of vitamin A for a child in need. Affecting up to 140 million children every year, vitamin A deficiencies that go untreated can result in the child going blind before age 6, however vitamin A, given to a child twice a year for four years, can prevent blindness forever. [News Source]

The Vitamin Shoppe raises funds for Vitamin Angels (Elmhurst Argus Press Spectator) Throughout May, The Vitamin Shoppe, 17 W. 700 22nd St., Oakbrook Terrace, will collect cash donations for Vitamin Angels’ Operation 20/20 campaign. [News Source]

Vitamins may be the key to healthy hearing (Canada.com) Q: What's this I hear about vitamins to protect against hearing loss? True? [News Source]

Vitamin D and cancer: maintaining levels key to protection? (Nutraingredients.com) 12-May-2008 - Ensuring levels of vitamin D never get low could be a way of protecting against cancer, suggests a new study from Germany. [News Source]

Eating your medicine. When added to an overall healthy diet, functional foods - referring to foods that have benefits beyond basic nutrition - may play a role in the prevention or treatment of mild forms of disease. [News Source]

Contaminated mud too close for comfort. The mud is contaminated with hazardous cancer-causing substances such as PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) and oil distillation byproducts like benzene and naphthalene. [News Source]

Grass is greener for feeding chickens and lambs. The demand for locally grown food, especially grass-fed meats, has caused a surge in the number of small farms. [News Source]