Cancer patients with high levels of vitamin D more likely to survive (Daily Telegraph) Cancer patients with high levels of vitamin D - the sunshine vitamin - are more likely to survive, research has found. [News Source]

Does sex make you fat? The idea that a good workout in bed could pile on the pounds rather than help to shed them seems bizarre, and yet this is exactly what a group of scientists are now proposing. [News Source]

Food crisis solution: Go vegan. Why are we in the midst of a food crisis when world production of food per person has actually grown steadily since the 1960s? The answer is that we're not eating the food we grow, sometimes wasting at least 80 percent of it. [News Source]

High costs, consequences attached to running on biofuels. King County Metro is buying a fuel that is significantly more expensive than diesel, may be worse for the environment, may increase local food prices, may lead to global hunger and potentially cost King County more as a member of the Chicago Climate Exchange. [News Source]

Behind South Koreans’ worries about U.S. beef. President Lee was hoping to win points with the U.S. government by reopening the country's market, but the move has quickly backfired at home. In recent weeks, the country has seen anti-U.S.-beef and antigovernment rallies occur almost daily. [News Source]

Why affluent women in the South are more likely to die from breast cancer. While general cancer rates for Northerners are 20 per cent higher - mainly due to greater rates of poverty and smoking - the trend is dramatically reversed for breast cancer. [News Source]

The global food crisis deepens. The list of countries on the brink of disaster because of the global food crisis is growing by the week. [News Source]

Marine life on ‘junk food’ diet — and we’re to blame. Overfishing and changes in the climate could be putting marine birds and mammals on a "junk food" diet. But unlike humans, marine animals eating junk food diet are losing weight. [News Source]

Healthy lifestyle triggers genetic changes: study. Comprehensive lifestyle changes, including a better diet and more exercise, can lead not only to a better physique but also to swift and dramatic changes at the genetic level. [News Source]

Can lifestyle changes bring out the best in genes? New research shows diet and exercise may change how genes act. [News Source]

Healthy lifestyle turns off genes that cause cancer. Diet and exercise may turn crucial genes on and off. [News Source]

Health divide: inequalities start in the womb. Sixty years in hot pursuit of equity have left Britain a country as divided as ever between healthy haves and unhealthy have-nots. [News Source]