VItamin C supplement shortage hurting consumers (The Times of India) What does the availability of vitamin C supplements here have to do with the Beijing Olympics of 2008? A lot, if you ask the local pharmaceutical sector. [News Source]

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

From landfill to wheat field. Timothy McVicar is trying to grow a little junk food. His target crop, winter wheat, doesn't sound like it would trash your average healthy diet. But it will grow atop the biggest garbage heap in Niagara. [News Source]

US diabetes cases to double, costs triple by 2034. By 2034, nearly twice as many Americans will have diabetes and spending on the disease will triple, further straining the U.S. health system and testing the viability of Medicare and other government health insurance programs, U.S. researchers said on Friday. [News Source]

Some like it cold: It’s not too late to get your fall veggie garden growing (Lexington Clipper-Herald) (ARA) - If you haven't yet joined the "grow your own vegetables" craze, it's not too late to join in. You can produce a bounty of vitamin-rich veggies from plot (or pot) to plate this fall, plus you'll save a bundle by growing them yourself. [News Source]

Doomsday looming for many truckers. Thousands of truckers servicing the LA-Long Beach port complex are facing a day of reckoning this New Year's. That's because Jan. 1 is the day new clean-air guidelines go into effect at the ports, banning all pre-1994 trucks, and 1994-2003 rigs that have not been retrofitted with costly diesel particulate filters. [News Source]

Eat well to boost immunity, don’t pop vitamins (MalaysiaNews.net) Toronto, Nov 27 (IANS) Eating food rich in nutrients is more than enough to boost your immunity against colds and flu instead of just popping too many vitamins, says a new study. [News Source]

Experts say vitamin D assists body’s immune system to fight against H1N1 (News-Medical-Net) The world's leading vitamin D experts say that raising your levels of "the sunshine vitamin" this winter might be the best way to help your body naturally raise its resistance to all forms of the flu virus - including the H1N1 swine flu virus. [News Source]

Elixir of life Vitamin C fast disappearing (Hindustan Times) Vitamin C has been disappearing from chemist shops. This widely taken supplement, with an estimated market of Rs 200 crore annually, has been in short supply because pharmaceutical companies have been reducing production. [News Source]

Whitehall turf war saves cows’ hides. Let me tell you the story of a classic Whitehall farce, a tale of how the government came within a whisker of advocating bovine genocide to help save the environment and make us healthier. At the end of the day, no cows died on the altar of climate change. [News Source]

Land of plenty. Today Americans waste 1400 calories of food per person every day. The rotting food "produces substantial quantities of methane—gas with 25 fold more potent global warming potential than CO2 which would have been the primary end product had the food been eaten and metabolized by humans." [News Source]

DuPont’s ‘unique’ seaweed venture nets DOE cash. Seaweed holds promise as more than an ingredient in a purifying face mask or a maki roll. So say researchers at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which has secured $9 million from the DOE to explore seaweed's potential as a feedstock for biobutanol, an advanced biofuel. [News Source]