Eldorado increases shipments of Organic Vitamin Charged Spring Water (Drinks Business Review) Eldorado Artesian Springs has announced that it increased the shipments of its recently introduced Organic Vitamin Charged Spring Water. [News Source]

Cognis hikes vitamin E price (Nutraingredients.com) The German ingredient giant also raised the price of its natural-source plant sterols with the price hikes effective from June for all North American customers. [News Source]

Meat’s striking out. A baseball player goes vegetarian? It's true. And maybe he's onto something. [News Source]

Rising price of rice keeps U.N. scrambling to feed world’s hungry. The World Food Program has 18 dedicated food procurement officers, plus hundreds of others doing work related to food purchasing. Even in normal times it can get hectic. And these are not regular times. [News Source]

US ethanol policy under siege in food-for-fuel debate. Amid a surge in food prices blamed in part on US expansion of corn-based ethanol production, lawmakers, experts and industry officials are urging the government to rethink a new law mandating alternative fuels. [News Source]

Research targets dad’s DNA. Would-be dads are rarely bombarded with pre-pregnancy tips on diet missteps and toxic exposures, even though sperm DNA is vulnerable to defects that can cause possible health problems for their children. [News Source]

The search for solutions. Doctors are great once a child becomes so obese that he or she develops diabetes or heart disease. But they have yet to figure out how to keep children from becoming obese or how to help them lose weight. [News Source]

Child obesity problem ballooning. Child obesity is ballooning into a big problem in China as 'little emperors' are increasingly getting an appetite for the Western couch-potato way of life, according to a study presented in Geneva. [News Source]

Guelph should take on food crisis. There is non-stop discussion of the challenges posed by "the energy crisis" and serious global warming. However, the food crisis will, over the next decade, be an even bigger challenge. And, for Canada, an even greater opportunity. [News Source]

Catch of the day. By far the most challenging choice on the menu is the fish course. With cod stocks plummeting, sea bass being caught at a rate of knots and farmed fish a hot topic, many diners would be forgiven for forgoing their flounder in favour of a guilt-free nut cutlet. [News Source]

Merck Halts Study on Vitamin B-Based Cholesterol Drug (Fox News) Merck & Co. has halted a study of an experimental drug it had touted as key to energizing its sagging cholesterol franchise, barely three weeks after U.S. regulators refused to allow sales of the drug. [News Source]

Vitamin A campaign a success in Bangladesh (OneWorld South Asia) Dhaka: Child rights activists, NGOs, international donor agencies and Bangladesh’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare have successfully provided life-saving vitamin A doses to 19 million children younger than five. [News Source]