People’s Pharmacy home remedies: Cherry juice for arthritis, vitamin D for immune system (Seattle Times) This week's People's Pharmacy column looks at the benefits of cherry juice, vitamin D and milk thistle. [News Source]

Putting limits on vitamin E: The potent antioxidant may do more harm than good (PhysOrg) Vitamin-fortified foods and dietary health supplements can ease health worries. But what kinds of vitamins are right for you? And how much of them should you take, and how often? [News Source]

Putting limits on vitamin E (EurekAlert!) A research group from Tel Aviv University has done the most comprehensive and accurate study of clinical data on vitamin E use and heart disease to date, and it warns that indiscriminate use of high-dose vitamin E supplementation does more harm than good. [News Source]

Newsweek: Are vitamin-enhanced alcohols healthy? (MSNBC) The newest wave in the luxury spirits world—fighting to stay hip in hard times and now the world of post-recession chic—is healthy(ish) hard alcohol. But how healthy is it, exactly [News Source]

Are Vitamin-Enhanced Alcohols a Heathier Choice? (Newsweek) Some spirit makers boast natural ingredients and nutritional additives in an effort to attract a health-conscious clientele. But can alcohol really be healthy? [News Source]

EPA outlines ‘consequences.’ The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a list Tuesday of consequences designed to hold states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed accountable for not making adequate progress in reducing pollution entering the bay. [News Source]

Environment preview of 2010. After the debacle at Copenhagen, the world will be hoping that global leaders can make up for lost time this year. [News Source]

EPA threatens states for failing to clean up Chesapeake Bay. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, hoping that a get-tough approach can turn around the failing effort to save the Chesapeake Bay, outlined Tuesday ideas for punishing states that don't do their part. [News Source]

Schools could learn lessons on food safety. A decade has passed since the USDA decided that the ground beef it buys for school lunches must meet higher safety standards than ground beef sold to the general public. But those rules have fallen behind the standards that fast-food chains and other businesses are adopting on their own. [News Source]

January 4-10 is Folic Acid Awareness Week (Utica Daily News) Fifty percent of all pregnancies in the United States are unplanned. Many women are in the dark about what they need to do before they become pregnant to guard against birth defects. Having the latest information on folic acid research readily available helps to make them more knowledgeable about the benefits of this vitamin in reducing neural birth defects such as Spina Bifida. [News Source]

All Alternative Medicine Products LLC. Presents a New Line of Natural Nutritional Supplements and Vitamins (PRWeb) All Alternative Medicine products LLC. has announced that they have added a new line of Natural Nutritional Supplements and Vitamins on their web store. All Supplements and Vitamins are produced on FDA registered and inspected facility operating since 1977. All natural herbal ingredients used in production of All Alternative Medicine’s Nutritional vitamins and supplements make them safe, top ... [News Source]

Natural Grocers finds home in west Greeley (Greeley Tribune) Greeley is now on tap for its second major natural foods grocery chain. While builders are building up Sprouts Farmers Market in the old Circuit City building on 47th Avenue, the contractor for Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage began remodeling the former Pier 1 Imports store at the Elk Lakes Shopping Center on 35th Avenue earlier this month. Natural Grocers should open in March; the Sprouts ... [News Source]