Vitamin D is an issue for Alaskans (Anchorage Daily News) Interested people are needed to participate in a one-year study to assess the effects of long dark winters on the vitamin D and calcium levels of Fairbanks residents. [News Source]

We took up to £20 of vitamins a month - then went cold turkey (Daily Mail) Britons spend £330million a year on supplements. We asked three devotees to give up their pills - with fascinating results. [News Source]

Troubled waters: Why we fell out of love with bottled water (and how the industry plans to win us back). Bottled water. We all hate it now, don't we? Few products can rival its spectacular fall from grace. [News Source]

Illness expected to rise in the UAE. Incidence of cancer in the UAE is expected to rise among children and the elderly, said a leading oncologist in Dubai. Oncologists are already reporting an increase of cancer cases in children and of prostate cancer in men. [News Source]

Turn veggie to save planet, says Sir Paul. Sir Paul McCartney has teamed up with a Nobel Prize-winning scientist to urge people to become vegetarian to save the planet from the greenhouse gases created by rearing livestock. [News Source]

Obesity fuels fears of faster diabetes rise. The prevalence of diabetes worldwide will far outstrip even the sharp increase currently projected unless rising trends of obesity are controlled, health experts said on Saturday. [News Source]

How depression harms your heart. Much as fatty diets, cigarette smoking, inactivity and obesity are linked with an increased risk of heart disease, recent evidence suggests that mental health has a similarly powerful impact. The question has always been, why? [News Source]

Calls for national infant formula recall spread. As worried parents called manufacturers looking for guidance about the presence of melamine and a key byproduct in U.S.-made formula, the FDA reiterated its position that the baby food is safe and parents should continue feeding it to their babies. [News Source]

FDA sets safe level for infant formula contaminant. Federal regulators set a safety threshold Friday for the industrial chemical melamine that is greater than the amount of contamination found so far in U.S.-made infant formula. [News Source]

Cornell scientists find key to vitamin B1 biosynthesis (Central New York Business Journal) A key enzyme in the biosynthesis of vitamin B1 has somehow evolved the ability to perform a complex series of some 15 to 20 steps, report two Cornell chemists. [News Source]

Vitamin D-rich mushrooms: A research success (High Plains Journal) Now there's an even better reason to add fresh mushrooms to your breakfast omelet, noontime burger, or dinner salad. [News Source]

Vitamin D-rich mushrooms: A research success (High Plains Journal) Now there's an even better reason to add fresh mushrooms to your breakfast omelet, noontime burger, or dinner salad. [News Source]