Vitamins offer no benefit, studies say (The Wichita Eagle) They were some of the most promising medicines of the 1990s -- wonder pills that appeared to fight cancer, heart disease, stroke and other ailments. Laboratory tests and initial studies in people suggested that lowly vitamins could play a crucial role in preventing some of the most intractable illnesses. The National Institutes of Health gave them the same treatment as top-notch pharmaceutical ... [News Source]

Reader views (0) (Evening Standard) TAKING vitamins and eating fruit does not help protect women against cancer, a major study claims. Researchers at Harvard Medical School followed more than 7,500 women for nine years in one of the biggest studies of the effects of vitamins on cancer. [News Source]

Vitamin D Deficiency Associated With Greater Rates Of Cesarean Sections (Medical News Today) Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) found that pregnant women who are vitamin D deficient are also at an increased risk for delivering a baby by caesarean section as compared to pregnant women who are not vitamin D deficient. These findings currently appear on-line in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. [News Source]

Learn why vitamin D is important to good health (Everett Herald) It's easy to become D-deficient. According to the latest research, many of us are low in the vitamin, which is needed in adequate amounts for good health. [News Source]

Now, our pills are going down easier (The State) Forget about gagging on pills that seem as big as footballs or swallowing liquids that smell like cod liver oil. Today, everything from cough medicine to multiple vitamins has been turned into pellets that melt, powders that dissolve and gum balls that can be gobbled up like candy. In most cases, the drugs are not new, but the way they are delivered often is. Over the past 40 years, inventors ... [News Source]

Vitamin D (New York Times) Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that helps the body absorb calcium. Fat-soluble vitamins are stored in the body's fatty tissue. [News Source]

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

Vitamins offer no benefit, studies say (The Wichita Eagle) They were some of the most promising medicines of the 1990s -- wonder pills that appeared to fight cancer, heart disease, stroke and other ailments. Laboratory tests and initial studies in people suggested that lowly vitamins could play a crucial role in preventing some of the most intractable illnesses. The National Institutes of Health gave them the same treatment as top-notch ... [News Source]

Additive used in bacon and ham is linked to lung cancer, according to new research. A common food additive used to bulk out processed meats could fuel the spread of lung cancer. [News Source]

Rutgers to study obesity sources. Rutgers researchers hope to uncover the reasons why obesity rates among children have jumped from 6.5% in 1980 to 17% in 2006. [News Source]

Crestor might turn white hair black (The Charlotte Observer) (Joe and Teresa Graedon) Q. I am 76 and take vitamins, calcium, low-dose aspirin, Crestor for cholesterol, lisinopril for blood pressure, Coenzyme Q10 and Osteo Bi-Flex for arthritis. My doctor has approved all this. My problem: I have had gray hair since I was 35, and through the years it has turned white. Now I have black hair growing from the roots, and it seems to grow every day. I am very ... [News Source]

Vitamin B1 can reverse kidney damage (The Times of India) Vitamin B1 can reverse early kidney disease in people with type-2 diabetes, a study by British researchers has shown. [News Source]