Art Smith, Elmo Team up to Cook up Good Nutrition - ABC News

Art Smith, Elmo Team up to Cook up Good Nutrition - ABC News:

"The program provides families with an educational outreach kit which includes a video featuring four new Muppets, the 'Super foods' — banana, cheese, whole-grain roll and broccoli. The video also features Elmo and friends, plus real families, as they try new foods, learn about healthy snacks and discover the importance of sharing a meal together.

And, of course, the broccoli knows how to boogie.

Soy Isoflavones May Modify Risk of Breast Cancer

Soy Isoflavones May Modify Risk of Breast Cancer: "Those women with the highest isoflavone intake had an approximately 30 percent decreased risk of having an invasive breast tumor, and an approximately 60 percent decreased risk of having a grade 1 tumor."

No link seen between high-carb diet, colon cancer | Reuters

No link seen between high-carb diet, colon cancer | Reuters:

"For the new study, researchers followed 73,000 middle-aged and older Chinese women over a decade, looking at the association between reported diet habits and the risk of developing colon cancer.

The women...completed detailed diet questionnaires that allowed the researchers to estimate the total glycemic load of their diets.

...When the researchers divided the study participants into five groups based on dietary glycemic load, they found no evidence that the women's risk of colorectal cancer increased along with glycemic load."

Eating Peanuts While Pregnant May Up Allergy Risk

From WebMD: Eating Peanuts While Pregnant May Up Allergy Risk:

"The children were 3- to 15-months old, and none had been diagnosed with peanut allergies. Blood testing revealed that 140 had a strong sensitivity to peanuts.
....But not everyone with high IgE levels is allergic, Sicherer says.

Maternal consumption of peanuts during pregnancy was strongly predictive for this sensitivity, the researchers reported.

The study appears in the November issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology"

Green Tea Likely To Have No Effect On Breast Cancer Risk

Green Tea Likely To Have No Effect On Breast Cancer Risk:

"A new study published in the current edition of the journal Breast Cancer Research suggests that drinking green tea does not significantly decrease the risk for developing breast cancer. The study, performed by researchers from the National Cancer Center in Tokyo, Japan, calls an age-old belief into question"

and later

""Although in vitro and animal-based studies have suggested that green tea may have beneficial protective effects against breast cancer, results from human studies have been inconclusive, our large-scale, population-based prospective cohort study is one of the first to include a wide range of tea intakes; women who drank green tea less than one cup per week to those who drank 10 or more cups per day," Iwasaki says in a statement."