March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and experts say that people who eat a "rainbow" of foods can reduce their chances of developing colorectal cancer. Since colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer diagnosed in the United States and is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths, researchers say it pays to know how to avoid it.

While many Americans know which foods to eat to help keep their hearts healthy they often don't know how to eat to protect their colons, Lynn Goldstein, M.S., R.D., C.D.N., from the Jay Monahan Center at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, said in a statement

Stress fracture, a common type of sports injury present in female athletes, can be reduced to quite an extent by taking higher-than-recommended doses of calcium and vitamin D supplements for eight weeks, a study of Naval recruits showed.

The new results are seen as hope for the female athletes as well as women in the military, who suffer more frequently from stress fracture. A stress fracture is one type of incomplete fractures in bones. It could be described as a very small sliver or crack in the bone; this is why it is sometimes dubbed "hairline fracture". It typically occurs in weight-bearing bones, such as the bones of the lower leg and bones of the foot

Scientists have reportedly developed a vitamin D pill that emulates the healing power of the sun to treat advanced prostate cancer. Produced by American drug company, Novacea, the pill will be readily available in the market by 2009.

Scientists are currently looking forward to carry out clinical trials of the drug - Asentar (DN-101) which delivers a concentrated dose of the vitamin without running any side-effects of an overdose

The natural B vitamin "folate" is missing from many young women's diets, and this has caused alarm among government health officials.

Deficiency of this vitamin has been linked to birth defects of the brain and spine, as concluded by past research. The results of this research brought out the need for breads and cereals fortified with folic acid, an artificial version of "folate," the natural vitamin B, to be included in diets, especially during pregnancy

Research suggests that higher levels of vitamin D in the blood may decrease the risk of multiple sclerosis (MS). The Harvard School of Public Health team studied vitamin levels of US military personnel.

MS is one of the most common neurological diseases claiming around two million people globally