Our Commenters Of The Week Win A Vitamin Water Flung By Ashton Kutcher! [Comments Of The Week] (Defamer) After this arduous week of battletweeting, it's time for the commenters who've done the best job to sit back and uncork some congratulatory Vitamin Water. Don't worry, kids: we've spiked it. So who... [News Source]

A whale of a shortsighted subsidy program. Although whaling poses a threat to whale numbers, a much more significant threat is government subsidies, which not only promote the hunting of the animals themselves but also lead to overfishing of their food supply. [News Source]

Hazardous peanut butters. President Obama has promised to do more to protect consumers. The White House and Congress need to work together to provide more resources and clout for the guardians of the food supply — and to demand more accountability. [News Source]

Metro’s advances in air quality and water use offset by reliance on fossil fuels, landfills. Vancouver has landfills that continue to grow despite recycling programs, homelessness, high housing prices, and continuing reliance on fossil fuels over renewable energy. [News Source]

Nutritionist skeptical of sausage-leukaemia link. Children who regularly eat cured and processed meat may be at a greater risk of leukaemia, a study suggests, but an Australian nutritionist says parents need not panic if their children have been tucking into hot dogs and salami. [News Source]

The new pb&j: Peanut butter & jam that users are in. The number of items pulled in the nation's latest peanut butter recall may be leading some of you to look twice, even three times, at what you buy. [News Source]

Tufts receives NIH grant to study immigrant obesity in Somerville. Tufts researchers have received a $2.3-million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to design an obesity intervention program for immigrants in Somerville. [News Source]

Queen’s chemist sheds light on health benefits of garlic (EurekAlert!) ( Queen's University ) Researchers have widely believed that the organic compound, allicin -- which gives the pungent vegetable its aroma and flavor -- acts as an antioxidant. But until now it hasn't been clear how allicin works, or how it stacks up compared to more common antioxidants such as Vitamin E and coenzyme Q10, which stop the damaging effects of radicals. [News Source]

FDA finds vitamin B6 form not legal in supplements (Nutraingredients.com) The decision, in response to a petition from a North Carolina-based firm called Biostratum, provoked the Washington DC-based Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) to issue a statement warning that a precedent could be established that could see the status of other ingredients challenged. [News Source]

Test Your Vitamin D Knowledge: Wellesse Liquid Sunshine Instant Win and Sweepstakes (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Wellesse, manufacturers of new Liquid Vitamin D3, has launched an online promotion that challenges participants to assess their vitamin knowledge for a chance to win healthy prizes - including a personal nutrition consultation and a year's supply of liquid vitamin D3 at http://VitaminD.Wellesse.com. [News Source]

Ink bleeding into social fabric (Las Vegas Sun) The tattoo guns buzz like dentists’ drills and the smell of vitamin D ointment adds a medicinal quality to the few hundred painted arms holding aluminum bottles of Bud Light. [News Source]

Tanning salon participating in D-Feat Breast Cancer campaign (The Sparta Independent) SPARTA - Star Tans is taking part in a North American effort to fund the continuation of research which now shows that vitamin D deficiency is strongly linked to a significantly elevated risk of breast cancer. [News Source]