Sneaky food books: Hot and a hot topic (AP via Yahoo! News) It's a technique on the tip of a lot of parents' tongues — and maybe their children's too: Puree healthy fruits and vegetables, and sneak them into regular kid food like macaroni and cheese or chocolate pudding. Watch the kids unknowingly gobble down their vitamins, and smile. [News Source]

Sneaky food books: Hot and a hot topic (AP via Yahoo! News) It's a technique on the tip of a lot of parents' tongues — and maybe their children's too: Puree healthy fruits and vegetables, and sneak them into regular kid food like macaroni and cheese or chocolate pudding. Watch the kids unknowingly gobble down their vitamins, and smile. [News Source]

Sun may lower advanced breast cancer risk (UPI) The risk of advanced breast cancer decreases with increased exposure to sunlight and increased levels of vitamin D, U.S. researchers found. [News Source]

Almonds (ThirdAge) Go Crazy for Nuts! Nuts and seeds are nutritional powerhouses. And whether you sprinkle them on cereal and salads or use them as a snack, they provide an almost complete package of high-quality protein, essential fatty acids, vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals. [News Source]

Another roo on the barbie. In his 1893 play "A Woman of No Importance," the famed British wit Oscar Wilde defined fox hunting as "the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable." [News Source]

Teach children eco-friendly eating habits. We have no qualms about eating whatever foods we like and throwing away all the leftovers. Even if such a way of eating is economically possible in our wealthy society, it is clearly unsustainable from the environmental point of view. [News Source]

Fast food salt levels ’shocking’. A meal at a fast food restaurant could expose children to "staggeringly" high levels of salt, a survey has suggested. [News Source]

Pizza Hut and KFC highest on list of serious salt offenders. Children could be consuming four times their recommended salt intake by eating out at popular fast-food chains, research revealed yesterday. [News Source]

New anti-CO2 plan in works. The Environment Ministry plans to amend a law promoting measures to deal with global warming to include increased carbon dioxide emission "visibility" on electrical appliances and have more companies report emissions, it has been learned. [News Source]

Conference to examine world obesity epidemic. About 1,800 researchers will gather in New Orleans this weekend to discuss efforts to treat and contain the worldwide obesity epidemic. [News Source]

Water whets the appetite of commodity traders with an eye to the next fortune. Global shortages of water could lead to the precious liquid being exchanged in a similar way to permission schemes used by countries for carbon dioxide, the head of one of the world’s leading exchanges said yesterday. [News Source]

Vitamin K shows potential in the fight against wrinkles (Nutraingredients.com) 10/19/2007 - Research suggests that vitamin K plays a role in protecting skin elasticity and may help protect against skin aging and the development of wrinkles. [News Source]