Silent night: a tune-up for body, soul and car. If you didn’t keep your 2008 New Year's resolutions, maybe they didn’t satisfy a deeper connection with yourself, your friends, your planet, or your car. With that in mind, following are some tips for lightening your calorie, carbon and pollution loads in 2009. [News Source]

Stop genetically modified food in Tamil Nadu: Greenpeace. "If genetically modified food is not stopped from entering India, we will have no surety for the youth of our nation or even our health," Greenpeace activist Jai Krishna said here Tuesday while releasing an international NGO's report on GM foods. [News Source]

Whole Foods pulls mislabeled ‘gluten-free’ meals from shelves after Tribune story. Responding to a Tribune investigation and mounting consumer pressure, Whole Foods Market said Tuesday it has pulled three popular "gluten-free" products because the items actually contain the substance. [News Source]

One in three Scots makes green resolution. Scots are planning to lead greener lives in 2009, a new survey suggests. [News Source]

Many studies needed to tie genes to cancer: study. Many genes linked to various cancers do not appear to raise the risk of getting cancer after all, according to an analysis of hundreds of studies published on Tuesday. [News Source]

Vitamins Not Preventing Cancer in Women, Says Study (wowOwow) Vitamins aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. read more [News Source]

Having a Baby: Vitamin D Deficiency Is Tied to C-Sections (The Gadsden Times) Even with the addition of vitamin D to milk, deficiency during pregnant persists. [News Source]

Vitamin Supplements Do Not Reduce Cancer Risk, More Evidence (Medical News Today) US researchers studying the effect of beta carotene, vitamin C and vitamin E, either singly or in combination, on over 7,000 women found the supplements did not reduce their risk of getting cancer compared to women who did not take the supplements. [News Source]

Vitamins C and E and beta carotene again fail to reduce cancer risk in randomized controlled trial (PhysOrg) Women who took beta carotene or vitamin C or E or a combination of the supplements had a similar risk of cancer as women who did not take the supplements, according to data from a randomized controlled trial in the December 30 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. [News Source]

Taking vitamins ‘fails to lower risk of getting cancer’ (Daily Mail) Taking vitamin supplements for years fails to lower your overall risk of suffering cancer, according to a new study. [News Source]

Don’t blame your genes if your jeans don’t fit. DNA has given us reason to hold up our heads as we suck in our stomachs. Since recent discoveries have shown how far genetic factors influence obesity, “big genes” have become the new big bones. [News Source]

Green room. Many readers are asking, "If natural refrigerants are so good then why did we not stick with them in the first place?" [News Source]