Bowel cancer soars by 120% among the under-30s. The number of young people with bowel cancer has more than doubled in ten years. Obesity and lack of exercise are blamed for the 120 per cent rise in cases among under-30s between 1997 and 2006. [News Source]

Vital Signs: Vitamin D Pills May Prevent Fractures in Older Adults (International Herald Tribune) In a pooled analysis, researchers found that one type of vitamin D accounts for most of the reduction in fracture risk. [News Source]

More Vitamin D May Be Key to Preventing Fractures — HealthandAge (HealthandAge) The effectiveness of vitamin D supplements in preventing bone fractures has been controversial. Investigators have tried to clear up the controversy by looking at data from multiple clinical trials. [News Source]

Swanson Vitamins Offers Highly Rated Supplements for Spring Cleansing (PRWeb via Yahoo! News) Everyone is familiar with spring cleaning, a deep clean that takes place every March to rid houses of dirt and dust collected over the winter. A new craze is spring cleansing, ridding the body of toxins. Swanson Vitamins offers many high-rated cleansing products to help with the process. [News Source]

Extra vitamin E may do more harm (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune) About three decades ago at a scientific conference on aging, just about every presenter was taking vitamin E, a nutrient with anti-oxidant properties that, it was thought, would slow the cellular ravages of age. [News Source]

Shedding light on the sunshine vitamin (The State) Vitamin D the so-called sunshine vitamin is the wonder nutrient of the moment. While the vitamin is best known for helping build strong bones and absorb calcium, a vitamin D deficiency can raise the risk of everything from immune disorders to colds and flu, according to recent research. [News Source]

The Golden Rice Scandal Unfolds (Scoop.co.nz) Phase II clinical trials on children have been conducted with unapproved experimental GM rice enhanced in pro-Vitamin A that has the potential to cause birth defects and developmental abnormalities Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins [News Source]

Vitamin D Pills May Prevent Fractures in Older Adults (New York Times) In a pooled analysis, researchers found that one type of vitamin D accounts for most of the reduction in fracture risk. [News Source]

Which Vitamin For What? (Global TV Maritimes) Calcium In the five years after menopause, the risk of developing osteoporosis increases rapidly as women's absorption of calcium declines. [News Source]

Fish oils reduce greenhouse emissions from ‘flatulent cows’ Cattle produce large amounts of methane as they digest their food and then belch out most of it through their mouths. [News Source]

New power plan rewards solar home owners. Power companies will be obliged to pay a higher price for excess energy generated by solar-equipped households under a new renewable energy policy. [News Source]

Baby obesity: rapid infant weight gain linked to childhood obesity. A new study found that sudden weight gain in early infancy was more important than how much a baby weighed at birth, the weight of the infant's parents, or the number of pounds put on by the mother during pregnancy. [News Source]