Vitamin Shoppe, Inc. To Present at the 2010 Stifel Nicolaus Consumer Conference (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Vitamin Shoppe, Inc. today announced that it will be participating in the 2010 Stifel Nicolaus Consumer Conference being held on March 8, 2010, at the St. Regis Hotel in New York. Â Mike Archbold, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer, will be participating in the event. [News Source]

Vitamins stored in bathrooms, kitchens may become less effective (EurekAlert!) ( Purdue University ) High humidity present in bathrooms and kitchens could be degrading the vitamins and health supplements stored in those rooms, even if the lids are on tight, a Purdue University study shows.Lisa Mauer, an associate professor of food science, said that crystalline substances are prone to a process called deliquescence, in which humidity causes a water-soluble solid to ... [News Source]

Vitamins stored in bathrooms, kitchens may become less effective (PhysOrg) (PhysOrg.com) -- High humidity present in bathrooms and kitchens could be degrading the vitamins and health supplements stored in those rooms, even if the lids are on tight, a Purdue University study shows. [News Source]

Insufficient Vitamin C Causes Perinatal Lethality In Mice (Medical News Today) Vitamin C is indispensible for life: without it, an individual develops the fatal disease scurvy. We obtain all our vitamin C from out diet and several tightly regulated processes control the level of vitamin C in our bodies. One protein known to be involved in controlling vitamin C levels is Slc23a1, but the in vivo importance of this has not been determined. However, Mark Levine and colleagues ... [News Source]

Vitamin D may help hearts (The Wenatchee World) Is vitamin D the next big thing in heart health? “I’m cautiously optimistic,” says Dr. Amit Khera, Director of the Preventive Cardiology Program at University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center and chairman of the American Heart Association’s State Advocacy Committee. Some studies indicate that people with higher levels of vitamin D have a lower risk of heart disease and stroke, along with ... [News Source]

Debating the environmental impact of feeding pets. You're always going on about the environmental impact of the food we eat. What about the food our pets eat? Cats and dogs consume a lot of meat, after all. [News Source]

Local watershed may be key to saving Chesapeake Bay. The Conewago Creek watershed — a sparsely populated but heavily farmed area at the junction of Lancaster, Dauphin and Lebanon counties — is being put in a big test tube. [News Source]

Nap lovers show higher diabetes rate. In a study of nearly 20,000 Chinese adults age 50 and older, the investigators found that participants who said they usually napped on at least four to six days out of the week had a higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes. [News Source]

Sleep habits linked to fat gain in younger adults. Researchers found that among black and Hispanic adults younger than 40, those who typically slept for five hours or less each night had a greater accumulation of belly fat over the next five years, versus those who averaged six or seven hours. [News Source]

Majority of Jordanian women suffer from vitamin D, B12 deficiencies (MENAFN) Majority of Jordanian women suffer from vitamin D, B12 deficiencies [News Source]

Majority of Jordanian women suffer from vitamin D, B12 deficiencies (Zawya) 02 March 2010 AMMAN - A vast majority of Jordanian women over the age of 25 suffer from vitamin D deficiency, a study released on Monday indicated. [News Source]