Good News In Our DNA: Defects You Can Fix With Vitamins And Minerals (Science Daily) As DNA sequencing becomes cheaper, it will become common for people to have their complete genomes sequenced. Personal genomes will not only tell people about genetic susceptibility to cancer and heart disease, but will also tell them which vitamins and how much can improve their health. A new study shows that one enzyme can be tuned up with vitamins, suggesting that one day we all may take ... [News Source]

Top Food offering free prenatal vitamins (Seattle Times) Haggen and Top Food stores will give free prenatal vitamins and fluoride supplements to anyone who has a prescription for them beginning June 4. [News Source]

TOP Food, Haggen Stores Offering Free Prenatal Vitamins (KIRO 7 Seattle-Tacoma) BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- TOP Food & Drug and Haggen Food & Pharmacy stores are offering free prenatal vitamins and fluoride supplements to anyone who has prescriptions for them . [News Source]

Widespread vitamin D deficiency poses risk-US study (AlertNet) Source: Reuters By Andrew Stern CHICAGO, June 2 (Reuters) - Many young children do not get enough vitamin D, an often invisible deficiency that can show up later as broken bones or a weakened immune system prone to ... [News Source]

Widespread vitamin D deficiency poses risk: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Many young children do not get enough vitamin D, an often invisible deficiency that can show up later as broken bones or a weakened immune system prone to disease, researchers said on Monday. [News Source]

Low vitamin D levels appear common in healthy children (PhysOrg) Many healthy infants and toddlers may have low levels of vitamin D, and about one-third of those appear to have some evidence of reduced bone mineral content on X-rays, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. [News Source]

Women ’should take vitamin D in pregnancy to stave off rickets’ (Daily Telegraph) All pregnant women should take vitamin D supplements to stave off increasing rates of rickets in children, researchers have advised. [News Source]

Babies, Tots Low on Vitamin D (WebMD) In a new study of Boston babies and toddlers, 40% had suboptimal blood levels of vitamin D, say Children's Hospital Boston doctors. [News Source]

Low vitamin D levels appear common in healthy children (EurekAlert!) Many healthy infants and toddlers may have low levels of vitamin D, and about one-third of those appear to have some evidence of reduced bone mineral content on X-rays, according to a report in the June issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. [News Source]

Your Health: Taking acid-suppressing drugs can deplete body of vitamins (Tri-State Neighbor) Q:After taking Aciphex to treat serious heartburn for four years, I developed a severe vitamin B-12 deficiency. I complained to my doctor about being extremely tired all the time. I needed to rest after just a simple task. [News Source]

Why we need GM foods. Food sufficiency, the argument will go, demands soil to work and the best of biotechnology to exploit it. [News Source]

Researchers are working on cause(s) of the mysterious honeybee die-off. Several years ago, beekeeper Marvin Cotton of Bettendorf tended 14 hives, or colonies, of honeybees in his back yard and at various sites in Scott County [News Source]