Vitamins and Minerals

• Arsenic - ProVet healthcare article on the benefits of feeding arsenic to animals.
• Cleft palate and Vitamin A - ProVet healthcare information article on high vitamin A supplementation during pregnancy predisposing to cleft palate in puppies and kittens.
• Cleft Palate and Vitamin or Fish Oil Supplements - Article on how too much vitamin A given to pregnant bitches and queens can cause cleft palate in their puppies and kittens.

• Do Our Pets Need Vitamins? - Discussion of the water soluble and fat soluble vitamins, and how they apply to pet nutrition.
• Lutein - ProVet healtcare information article on lutein in companion animal nutrition.
• Niacin - ProVet healthcare information article on the role on niacin in pets.
• Rickets - ProVet healthcare information article explaining what rickets is.
• Silicon - Provet healthcare information article on silicon as an important trace mineral for animals.
• Sodium in Pet Foods - Iams Company article on what sodium is and why it is important, sources of sodium in pet foods, howmuch sodium pets need, and when sodium restriction might be recommended.
• Sodium--the victim of erroneous perception. - The role of sodium in the pet diet, and common misconceptions.
• Vitamin A - ProVet healthcare article discussing exesses and deficiencies of Vitamin A in the animal diet.
• Vitamin B Complex in Renal Failure - ProVet pet healthcare information article, reviewing the importance of the B vitamins in kidney failure.
• Vitamin E - ProVet healthcare information article on vitamin E as an essential component of every pet's diet.

Think You Can't Get Your Kids to Eat Their Veggies? Veg-ucate! (Paragould Daily Press)
(ARA) - Ask any parent what foods kids want and what foods kids need, and they'll tell you the two rarely meet. In most cases, hot dogs trump tomatoes and animal crackers buck broccoli, causing many parents to wonder what they can do.

Today Apple WWDC, Tomorrow Google Apps (With No Process-ing Here!) (AllThingsD Online via Yahoo! Finance)
Does the tech march ever slow down? Not this week it doesn't! And Digital Daily's live-blogger de tutti live-bloggers John Paczkowski will be there to cover every move. Today, in case you haven't heard, is the big annual Apple event: The Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Sunsweet Introduces New Antioxidant Blend, a Delicious Blend of High Antioxidant Fruits (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Taste and nutrition have long been topics of discussion when making choices for your diet. With so much uncertainty about what products are healthy in the marketplace, Sunsweet Growers is proud to lead the way by delivering delicious, convenient and nutritious foods to help people lead healthier lives.

Big, Bountiful Salads That Satisfy (Carteret County News-Times)
(ARA) - The days when salads were strictly a side dish to something more important -- they're so over. A big, bountiful salad deserves to be the center of attention.

The Benefits of Fibre! (Drumheller Mail)
With all the attention we need to pay to choosing foods that are low in calories, low in saturated fat, portion controlled, and high in vitamins and minerals, do we really need to care about fibre content as well?