Welcome to the Anthropocene. Our world, our old world that we have inhabited for the last 12,000 years, has ended, even if no newspaper in North America or Europe has yet printed its scientific obituary. [News Source]

Joint Pain Eased By Vitamin D (But See Your Doctor First) (Hartford Courant) Q. I have been struggling with joint pain and just found out that my vitamin D level is really low. My doctor put me on a megadose of 50,000 IU (international units) each week for eight weeks. Then I will switch to 800 IU daily. [News Source]

My beauty secret? Vitamin C! (Philippine Daily Inquirer) Vitamin C. I take one 500mg tablet daily and increase the dosage if I have a cold. Vitamin C is a high antioxidant, which helps remove free radicals in skin cells and in effect repairs the skin from within. (Vitamin E is also good for the skin). [News Source]

Vitamins block post-meal grogginess in diabetics (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Fatty meals may cloud the brains of people with type 2 diabetes, but antioxidant vitamins can help clear the fog, Canadian researchers demonstrated in a study they conducted. [News Source]

Vitamins block post-meal grogginess in diabetics (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Fatty meals may cloud the brains of people with type 2 diabetes, but antioxidant vitamins can help clear the fog, Canadian researchers demonstrated in a study they conducted. [News Source]

Low vitamin D may harm the bones of IBD patients (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Maintaining adequate vitamin D levels in the body may help guard against bone disease in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a study in which researchers found a link between inadequate vitamin D levels and lower bone mineral density in a group of IBD patients. [News Source]

Advertisement starts (Tiscali) positive or negative effects." Antioxidants are promoted as helping to protect the body from free-radicals, highly reactive molecules capable of causing damage in the brain and other tissues. As well as vitamins A, C and E, they include zinc, ginkgo biloba, grape seed extract and green tea extract. [News Source]

Advertisement starts (Tiscali) positive or negative effects." Antioxidants are promoted as helping to protect the body from free-radicals, highly reactive molecules capable of causing damage in the brain and other tissues. As well as vitamins A, C and E, they include zinc, ginkgo biloba, grape seed extract and green tea extract. [News Source]