Men Turn To Vitamins (WNDU 16 South Bend) The gold standard for health is regular exercise, good nutrition and for many Americans supplements as well. [News Source]

Vitamin D (WJTV Jackson) You may not be getting all the Vitamin D you need from the sun [News Source]

Fish out the facts on the safety of Chinese seafood.

With news that the Food and Drug Administration has restricted imports of five kinds of seafood from China, consumers are wondering just how safe their seafood is and what they can do to protect themselves.

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Folic Acid and Vitamin B-12 — Get Enough of Both (Newswise) Folate, or its synthetic form, folic acid, is good for brain health. But there's concern that this brain booster could mask deficiencies in vitamin B-12, which can result in mental decline and other nerve problems. The July issue of Mayo Clinic Health Letter covers why it's important to have enough of both. [News Source]

Ethanol backers look to cellulose. Corn is the country's main renewable-fuel source. But corn — the every grain for every purpose — can't fill the nation's insatiable appetite for food, feed and fuel. [News Source]

Stress takes its toll on your waist, too. Chronic stress has a double effect on the body that can lead to obesity, according to Sydney scientists who have helped unravel how this occurs. [News Source]

Shots may help you lose that pot belly. Researchers have figured out how to remove fat from one part of the body and make it grow in another part -- at least in mice -- and say their findings could benefit health as well as beauty. [News Source]

Stress can lead to obesity, study says. Scientists say they have found a link between stress and obesity, which offers hope in treating the one-third of Americans who are overweight. [News Source]

Stress can be fattening, study finds. The fat on your belly may be there because of stress in your everyday life, and researchers think they may know how to get rid of it. [News Source]

Breast cancer: No longer a disease of older women. Breast cancer was once the number one killer of older women in The Bahamas, but now records show that the disease is increasingly affecting younger women. [News Source]

Drought forces desert nomads to settle down. Climate change threatens ice sheets and ecosystems, but it also threatens human cultures, including the nomadic Tuareg near Timbuktu. [News Source]

Vitamin D, calcium may prevent, improve diabetes (Nutraingredients.com) 7/2/2007 - Combined supplementation with vitamin D and calcium may improve blood sugar and insulin levels, suggests a new meta-analysis and review. [News Source]