Vitamin D2 Is As Effective As Vitamin D3 In Maintaining Concentrations Of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, Study Suggests (Science Daily) Researchers have found that vitamin D2 is equally as effective as vitamin D3 in maintaining 25-hydroxyvitamin D status. Vitamin D2 has been the main stay for the prevention and treatment of vitamin D deficiency in children and adults and as little as 100 IU of vitamin D2 was found to be effective in the prevention of rickets. Both vitamin D2 and vitamin D3 form 25-hydroxyvitamin D. [News Source]

The poor shut out of carbons market. If European leaders are truly committed to changing the status quo, they will find a way to allow small farmers into the carbon trading club. [News Source]

Tough to swallow Clemens’ account (Sun-Sentinel) I don't know a whole lot about law, but if I'm a member of Roger Clemens' legal team, I tell him the B-12 vitamin defense is not one I would personally mount if I were being hounded by accusations of steroid use and had been invited to testify before a congressional committee. [News Source]

Great lakes, oceans won’t be clean until global pesticides banned. Toxaphene, PCBs, chlordane and the other banned pesticides will not leave the Great Lakes until they are globally banned. [News Source]

Oklahoma City mayor puts city on a diet. Oklahoma City's mayor wants to put the city on a diet. Mick Cornett has challenged the city to shed 1 million pounds as its New Year's resolution. He wants to end Oklahoma City's dubious distinction as one of America's fattest cities. [News Source]

Don’t dish big fish to kids. Parents have been warned against feeding large fish species such as swordfish, marlin and shark to young children because of the danger of mercury poisoning. [News Source]

Green on Tap. If it can be greened, Standing Stone Brewing Company in Ashland plans to green it. [News Source]

50 people who could save the planet. Who are the people who can bring about change, the pioneers coming up with radical solutions? [News Source]

Himalayan glacier warming. Fifty years ago, the Pokhalde glacier snaked across the slopes of the Himalayas, a bloated tongue of ice hundreds of meters wide. Today, it’s gone. [News Source]

Clemens admits being injected with painkiller (Williamson Daily News)

Friday, January 4, 2008 4:42 PM CST NEW YORK (AP) - Roger Clemens admits former trainer Brian McNamee injected him but says it was with the painkiller lidocaine and the vitamin B-12, not any performance-enhancing drugs.

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For Strahan, steroids bust worst crime (Toronto Star) Forget the steroids, it's "Vitamin T" that Michael Strahan of the New York Giants is more likely to be turning to before today's NFL playoff game vs. the Buccaneers in Tampa. [News Source]