Sunshine vitamin is the way to beat asthma (Deepika) Washington, Nov 27 (UNI) Vitamin D can lower the risk of asthma in children, according to a new report. [News Source]

The Atkinson Diet helps town cut energy use. The Atkinson Diet is a reducing regimen aimed at cutting community energy use instead of cutting calories. [News Source]

The other greenhouse gases. Is methane really worse for the environment than carbon dioxide? [News Source]

High fuel prices inflating food costs. Rising fuel costs are partly to blame for inflated prices across the board, including many things on the grocery list like fresh fruits and vegetables, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [News Source]

Heavier people more prone to ozone effects. A study has revealed that the body mass index (BMI) is directly proportional to response to ozone and overweight or obese people may be more prone to its effects such as drop in lung function. [News Source]

City women at greater risk for breast cancer. Women who live in cities have denser breasts than those who live in suburban and rural areas, making them more likely to develop breast cancer. [News Source]

City life blamed for higher risk of breast cancer. The stresses and strains of city life could be putting women at risk of breast cancer, researchers said yesterday. [News Source]

What determines Junior’s DNA? A new field of science -- epigenetics -- is showing us that almost every aspect of our environment – from stress to our food to toxin exposure – can affect our genetic makeup in ways that can affect our bodies, and those of the next generation, for life. [News Source]

Sunny Arizona doesn’t provided needed vitamin D (The Arizona Republic) Vitamin D deficiencies are widespread and effect all ages in both the cloudy areas of our planet as well as our sunny Arizona. [News Source]

Natural Nutrition to Launch New Vegetarian Vitamin D Line of Products (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) Natural Nutrition Inc. www.naturalnutritioninc.com announced today that the company will launch a new Vegetarian Vitamin D line of new products. [News Source]

Is the sunshine vitamin the way to beat asthma? (Daily Mail) Researchers say that lack of vitamin D could be involved in the increase in asthma. They believe the increase in the condition has come at the same time as a decline in exposure to the sun, the main source of vitamin D [News Source]

Pittsburgh Based Associates in Ophthalmology now Offers Patients Nutritional Vitamin Supplements through a Partnership … (PRWeb) Pittsburgh based Associates in Ophthalmology (AIO) is very pleased to announce a new program offering nutritional vitamin supplements to promote eye care through a partnership with Douglas Laboratories. For over a century, Associates in Ophthalmology and the talented surgeons Dr. Daniel V. Zimmer, Dr. Brian Jewart, Dr. Lisa M. Cibik, Dr. Miguel Busquets, Dr. John P. Nairn and Dr. Martin ... [News Source]