Call On Labour to “Bury the Anti-Vitamin Bill (Scoop.co.nz) Health Freedom New Zealand (HFNZ) calls on Labour to do the right thing by the New Zealand voting public and get rid of the Anti-Vitamin Bill (Therapeutic Products and Medicines Bill) from the legislative agenda, thereby removing the threat of untold misery for New Zealand citizens. [News Source]

Growing interest in food suppliers boosts agriculture consortiums. Just off 16th Avenue in Phoenix, next to the roaring Interstate 17, sits a 40-acre parcel that helps feed thousands of people each week. [News Source]

Flamingos under threat from pollution. A key nesting site for one of Africa's emblematic birds is under threat from development and pollution. [News Source]

Advice on kids, cholesterol triggers heaps of confusion. There is no reason to believe Daniels and his academy colleagues are interested in anything but improving children's health. Even so, its questionable push on statins overshadowed its more sensible advice. [News Source]

Small research center provides a global window. The biological secrets being studied at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute are more than just thesis fodder; scientists say some provide clear warnings of a planet in peril and could provide clues to ways to save it. [News Source]

Arsenic and paddy rice: a neglected cancer risk? Rice is the staff of life for 3 billion people, mainly in Asia. But does it also increase the risk of cancer for some? That question arises from three sets of findings that report elevated arsenic levels in rice and rice products. [News Source]

New Studio Offers Pilates: The ‘Multi-Vitamin of Fitness’ (Norwalk Citizen-News) The first time I walked into Jennifer Mongeluzo's Norwalk Pilates Centre for my "one free session," I was feeling cynical, if not intimidated. [News Source]

A low carbon diet. The price of oil is only going one way: up. We literally cannot afford not to invest in renewables. [News Source]

Smoking and Certain Vitamins (WJTV Jackson) Experts want smokers to pay attention to the multi-vitamins they take [News Source]

Some seek guidelines to reflect Vitamin D’s benefits (The Philadelphia Inquirer) WASHINGTON - A flurry of recent research indicating that Vitamin D may have a dizzying array of health benefits has reignited an intense debate over whether federal guidelines for the "sunshine vitamin" are outdated, leaving millions unnecessarily vulnerable to cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other ailments. [News Source]