Dr. DeSilva’s Vitamin D Rundown (Extra TV) "Extra" Lifechanger Dr. DeSilva is revealing everything you need to know about Vitamin D. A Very Perry Christmas Katy Perry gets into the holiday spirit at the ski winter opening in Ischgl, Austria. [News Source]

C for cataracts – study raises concerns over vitamin and eye health (Nutraingredients.com) Findings from 24,593 Swedish women aged between 49 and 83 indicated that vitamin C use was associated with a 25 per cent increase in the incidence of cataracts. [News Source]

Vitamin D promotes healthy growth at Immunodiagnostic Systems (Daily Telegraph) Immunodiagnostic Systems shares soared almost 15pc as demand from patients for their levels of vitamin D to be tested drove major rise in revenues. [News Source]

Global warming? Don’t wait up! The Earth has her own tricks to keep the carbon count in control. Science is as vulnerable to the vested interests and biases of its practitioners as any corporate entity or political party. Nowhere is this more worryingly obvious than in the science of climate change. [News Source]

Harford bill may allow incinerator near park. Harford County residents will have a chance to raise questions Tuesday about a controversial bill that would allow the county to build a waste-to-energy incinerator near Cunion Field, an Edgewood park popular with local children and their families. [News Source]

Engineered edible cottonseed could feed millions. "The Fabric of Our Lives" may soon feed millions. A Texas researcher has found a way to reduce toxin in cottonseed that until now could only be eaten by cattle. [News Source]

Thanksgiving dinner’s carbon footprint. As if you need another reason to feel guilty about chowing down on Thanksgiving Day, consider this: researchers at the University of Manchester in England figure that a turkey-n-trimmings feast for eight produces approximately 44 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions. [News Source]

What is the right number to combat climate change? Despite decades of effort, scientists do not know precisely what temperatures or greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere constitute a danger. [News Source]

Autism treatments: Risky alternative therapies have little basis in science. Studies have shown that up to three-quarters of families with children with autism try alternative treatments-- treatments that an investigation finds amount to uncontrolled experimentation on vulnerable children. [News Source]

Get ready for vitamin D day (Stuff) SIGNS of summer sun are just around the corner. Beaches, barbies, bugs and blooming pohutukawa await us. [News Source]

Relevant Links (AllAfrica.com) Mrs. Tyozunghul who also monitored the process in various council wards of the state noted further that the combination of the OPV and the Vitamin A supplement in the exercise actually elicited the massive turn out that greeted the Immunization Plus Days in the state. [News Source]

2 Top Three: Health 3 1 (The Morning Call) GET MORE D, NOT C: Your OJ carton may imply otherwise, but there's little scientific evidence vitamin C helps prevent colds. But a recent study found people who have low levels of vitamin D are up to 40 percent more likely to get a respiratory infection. Vitamin D helps turn on the body's immune response. The primary source of D is sunlight, but that's scarce in the winter, so load up on D-rich ... [News Source]