Adults still risk vitamin D deficiency (USA Today) As many as 36% of Americans are vitamin D deficient, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. [News Source]

Lack of vitamin D rampant in infants, teens (USA Today) Vitamin D deficiency seems to be more common than previously believed in youngsters. [News Source]

Hard for beef lover to swallow. Chris Weber found that red meat produces 150% more greenhouse gases than chicken or fish, not to mention veggies. [News Source]

Contaminants poison aboriginal people. The aboriginal people of Canada face special challenges as a result of environmental degradation. [News Source]

Our diet of destruction. Huge areas of the Amazon rainforest are being cut down to satisfy global demand for soya. [News Source]

Echo Bay: the town that used to be. There won't be enough kids to keep the Echo Bay Elementary School open this fall, not like the old days when the fish and forests made the Central Coast a place where families could live and work year round. [News Source]

Eateries devour grass-fed beef. Naturally raised meats are becoming more popular with consumers and restaurants are answering the demand. [News Source]

Japan, seeking trim waists, measures millions. Japan, a country not known for its overweight people, has undertaken one of the most ambitious campaigns ever by a nation to slim down its citizenry. [News Source]

Midwest floods are a broad threat to crops. For the thousands of farmers who have seen their fields turn to floodplains, the rain and flooding could not have struck at a worse time, and their plight extends far beyond the Midwest. [News Source]

Vitamin D Status Not Associated With Lower Prostate Risk (US News & World Report) But study finds evidence of slight link between higher concentrations, aggressive disease [News Source]

The Vitamin Shoppe plans to muscle in on GNC (BizJournals) After expanding virtually everywhere else in the country, New Jersey-based nutritional supplements retailer The Vitamin Shoppe is preparing to enter the Pittsburgh market, home to its largest competitor, General Nutrition Centers Inc. [News Source]

Diabetics shouldn’t forget their antioxidants: study (Nutraingredients.com) "Results from this study suggest that postprandial oxidative stress is a potential contributor because deficits in [cognitive performance] after test meal consumption could be minimized by co-consumption of the test meal with high doses of antioxidant vitamins ," wrote Michael Chui and Carol Greenwood from the University of Toronto. [News Source]