Obesity: The two faces of fat. No longer viewed as inert packets of energy, fat cells are two-faced masterminds of metabolism. There are differences between 'fat' fat cells and thin ones. [News Source]

EU asks industry to fight obesity. Europe's food and drink industry could face new regulations if it does not try harder to tackle obesity. [News Source]

Is a virus causing breast cancer? We still have very little understanding of what causes 90 per cent of breast cancers - all the ones, that is, that are sporadic rather than due to inherited mutations. Recently, a few researchers have revived the idea that a virus may be responsible for some cases. [News Source]

Vitamin C could be good for your heart (The Daily Reflector)

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Vitamin D, Calcium Might Lower Breast Cancer Risk (iVillage Total Health) Premenopausal women who get a lot of vitamin D and calcium may cut their risk of breast cancer by almost a third, Harvard Medical School researchers report. [News Source]

Vitamin D important to bone health (Nevada Daily Mail) Columbia, Mo. -- You may have heard the term "Got Milk?" but you've probably never been asked "Got Vitamin D?" Milk is a major source of calcium; the mineral that is the building block of bones. [News Source]

Vitamin D, Calcium Might Lower Breast Cancer Risk (MedicineNet.com) Title: Vitamin D, Calcium Might Lower Breast Cancer Risk Category: Health News Created: 5/30/2007 2:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 5/30/2007 [News Source]

Wary of food safety, China consumers shop with care. Chinese consumers could be forgiven for not knowing what to eat any more, and many wealthier urbanites are saying the country's string of food safety breaches is making them think twice about what they put into their shopping carts. [News Source]

Go vegan to help climate, says Government. It would help tackle the problem of climate change if people ate less meat, according to a Government agency. [News Source]

EU says Europeans are getting fatter. A majority of adults are obese or overweight in most European Union nations and kids increasingly contributing to make Europe a fat continent, the EU's top public health official said Wednesday. [News Source]

Wary of food safety, China consumers shop with care. First bird flu made eating poultry worrisome. Next it was tainted pork. Pesticides in vegetables. Toxic additives in processed foods. Chinese consumers could be forgiven for not knowing what to eat any more. [News Source]

Egg gatherers help scientists crack toxic contaminant mystery. U.S. biologists and native Alaskans are part of a long-range international effort to monitor Arctic and sub-Arctic environments for the quantity and identity of persistent bioaccumulative toxins. [News Source]