If you are born and raised in Calton you can expect to die at 54. Calton has long been renowned in Scotland's largest city for its grim health, but now the plight of its residents has been flagged up to health practitioners around the world. [News Source]

Stores are attacked for cutting prices of fatty foods. Supermarkets are undermining healthy eating by bombarding shoppers with cut-price offers for unhealthy food during the credit crunch, according to a report into the £90bn grocery market. [News Source]

Credit crunch brings big rise in supermarket offers on sugary foods. Supermarkets have dramatically increased cut-price promotions of cheap sugary and fatty food as the credit crunch bites, a consumer watchdog says today. [News Source]

Stores promoting junk food despite warnings on obesity. Supermarkets have almost doubled the number of “junk food” items they promote, despite warnings of an obesity crisis, an official watchdog has found. [News Source]

Shops ‘pushing unhealthy food’ in credit crunch. Leading supermarket chains have dramatically increased promotions featuring cheap, unhealthy food during the credit crunch, a consumer watchdog claims today. [News Source]

Poorer women give up on breastfeeding. Poorer women are now less likely to breastfeed than they were a decade ago, increasing the chance of their babies becoming ill and being hospitalised, a new study shows. [News Source]

Pets on a bad diet can develop behaviour problems, says top vet. Pet owners are putting their animals' lives at risk by giving them food packed with additives and chemicals, according to a new campaign. [News Source]

Keeping up with the genes tests … My search for the time bomb in our family. Experts warn that DNA research is still in its infancy and that many tests offered online are inaccurate. Yet Sales of home health tests have risen by 55 per cent since 2003, and the UK market is worth £100million a year. [News Source]

Centrum: It’s an art camp, not a vitamin (Yakima Herald-Republic) "Centrum is a gathering place for artists of all ages, from all cultures, and in all phases of their development." Grace Whitmer, an incoming eighth-grader at Yakima's Discovery Lab School, attended a residence camp for the first time this year. [News Source]

The You Docs: Got fat? Get this (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) If you're shaped like an apple, you need to eat more oranges. And papayas, bell peppers, sweet potatoes, broccoli and other foods that are high in vitamin C. [News Source]

Doctors Using Vitamin C To Fight Cancer (NBC4 Washington, D.C.) A new study finds high dose injections of vitamin C can reduce cancerous tumors by half. [News Source]

High doses of vitamin D safe for children (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Giving school children very high doses of vitamin D is safe, and may be necessary to bring their blood levels of the nutrient up to the amount necessary for optimum bone growth and health, a new study shows. [News Source]