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This section offers news briefs related to health and nutrition as of June 2016 including the findings that almost 60% of calories consumed by average Americans come from ultra processed foods, a study findings that do not support the use of vitamin D supplementation for preventing cartilage loss or improving knee pain and the study results that the wearable fitness trackers are better at simply counting steps and tracking distance traveled than the task of measuring energy expenditure.