Vitamin A for poor and vulnerable children (Vietnam Net) VietNamNet Bridge - The Government of Japan and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will help improve the health, growth and cognitive development of poor children in Viet Nam through a grant of US $1 million. [News Source]

Company sues to deliver Vitamin Water (Connecticut Post) The company doesn't operate a store or restaurant, but the lawyer for B & E Juices Inc. believes his clients are still franchisees of Energy Brands Inc. [News Source]

Inuit group drops moratorium on uranium mining. Canada's main Inuit organization has dropped a long-held moratorium on uranium mining in the Arctic, removing one obstacle to developing potentially rich deposits of the radioactive metal. [News Source]

Lean plate club: Vitamin D benefits wide-ranging (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) Vitamin D is best known for building strong bones, but it may have another benefit: longevity. In a recent analysis of more than 18 studies involving nearly 60,000 people, those who took vitamin D supplements had a 7 percent reduction in mortality from all causes compared with those who didn't take the vitamin. "The results are remarkable," said Edward Giovannucci of the Harvard School of Public ... [News Source]

You can only control your carbon footprint so much . If you really want to know how much you're robbing future generations, you need to examine your life more thoroughly than a carbon-footprint questionnaire allows. [News Source]

Ky. health report targets tobacco use. Smoking continues to be the public health scourge of Kentucky, contributing to nearly one-fourth of all deaths in the state as well as high levels of cancer, cardiovascular disease and respiratory illness, according to a public health report released yesterday. [News Source]

Throw away questionable toys from your child’s room. The recall this summer of millions of children's toys contaminated by lead-based paint has left parents such as Natalie Gamble of Ventura, Calif., with more questions than answers. [News Source]

Food a threat to some kids . Nearly 9 million American children younger than 18 suffer from food allergies. A nationwide study showed peanut allergies in children doubled between 1997 and 2002, but research has yet to explain why allergies are on the rise. [News Source]

Obesity expert: Blame policies. If food policy is not changed, people will keep getting fatter and sicker, and no diet or exercise program in the world will change that, says an expert on policy and obesity at Yale University. [News Source]

Through the forest, a clearer view of the needs of a people. While the soldiers departed from the American Special Forces air base in Vietnam long ago, a potent dioxin from the Agent Orange that they stored and sprayed here lingers still. [News Source]

A Vitamin Worth A Second Look (Washington Post) Call it the "sunshine" vitamin, because it's produced by your skin using the sun's ultraviolet rays. The vitamin--Vitamin D--is known to help build bones. But as you'll learn in today's Lean Plate Club column, it may have many more health benefits from increasing immunity to possibly increasing y... [News Source]

Supplements for over 50s may boost diet deficiency (Nutraingredients.com) Researchers writing in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association also found that a substantial portion of people in this age range do not get enough vitamins and minerals from their diet alone and the use of supplements is necessary. [News Source]