Seasonal veggie cabbage is full of vitamins (Carroll County Online) There's another seasonal vegetable I've noticed has been plentiful in grocery stores during late spring and early summer, but I've been avoiding it because it's not so glamorous: cabbage. [News Source]

New use for vitamins revealed (Channel 4) Simple vitamin supplements may one day be used to fix genetic flaws that affect health and performance, say scientists. Much like tuning the engine of a car, vitamins could make it possible to "tweak" DNA which is not working properly. [News Source]

Fish may be brain food, but we’re not that smart. The creatures who became humans apparently ate heaps of fish and shellfish, which are rich in the fatty acids that promote the growth of brain cells. [News Source]

Oil: It’s the new rage. A few hundred-dollar fill ups at the pump, and just plain American folks are ready for a new campaign theme: oil - where can we get it and how fast? [News Source]

Bison industry recruits ranchers as prices rise. Susan Popp was a manager at Hewlett-Packard and her husband was a pilot at the Air Force Academy more than a decade ago when they decided to become bison ranchers. [News Source]

South Koreans cry foul over beef, turn to greasy pork. U.S. and South Korean trade envoys said at the weekend they had forged a deal to allow a wide variety of U.S. beef products back into South Korea, which banned imports in 2003 after an outbreak of mad cow disease in the United States. [News Source]

Hunted, rammed, poisoned, whales may die from heartbreak, too. More than two decades after the start of a leaky moratorium on whale hunting, the most majestic of sea mammals have made little headway in recovering their once robust populations, say experts. [News Source]

New use for vitamins revealed. Simple vitamin supplements may one day be used to fix genetic flaws that affect health and performance, say scientists. [News Source]

Is meat off the menu? Meat consumption has come under attack on grounds of ethics, environment and health and has even been blamed for the global food crisis. [News Source]

Food policy needs more flesh on its bones. The Scottish government is to be commended for being ahead of Westminster in grasping the need for a holistic, cross-departmental national food policy, but it must take much more of a lead. [News Source]

Women get lung cancer from smoking at same rates as men. Women who smoke are just as likely to get lung cancer as men who smoke--but, women who never smoked appear to be at greater risk of lung cancer than men who never smoked, according to the report from the National Cancer Institute. [News Source]

India’s growth outstrips crops. India’s supply of arable land is second only to that of the United States. With the right technology and policies, India could help feed the world. Instead, it can barely feed itself. [News Source]