Clinic, parents adjust to allergies (Mankato Free Press) Salmon meat is among the healthiest in the world. Rich in vitamins A and D and an excellent source of fish oil and polyunsaturated fats — the good kind of fat — salmon is recommended by a wide variety of public health agencies as a healthy protein source. [News Source]

Vegetables Provide Stable Base Through Winter (The Post-Journal) 11/13/2007 - Root vegetables, frequently used in stews, soups and casseroles, are a staple throughout autumn and winter. With a higher starch content than other vegetables, they act as a thickener, providing a hearty texture along with important vitamins and minerals. [News Source]

Vegetables Provide Stable Base Through Winter (The Post-Journal) 11/13/2007 - Root vegetables, frequently used in stews, soups and casseroles, are a staple throughout autumn and winter. With a higher starch content than other vegetables, they act as a thickener, providing a hearty texture along with important vitamins and minerals. [News Source]

‘Docubloggers’: a new hybrid for KLRU (Austin American-Statesman) Tired of TV's same-old same-old? How about something that's home-grown and completely different: "Docubloggers." Huh? Sounds silly, but seriously, imagine YouTube on vitamins, a video blog with brains, viewed on TV instead of online, which makes it look infinitely better. [News Source]

Watch out for those fats (The New Straits Times–All the News that Matter) CHOLESTEROL is a lipid (fatty substance) circulating in the blood and is needed for various functions, namely to build and maintain cell membranes, produce sex hormones, insulate nerves, digest fats and synthesise vitamin D. Cholesterol is carried through the bloodstream by special carriers called lipoproteins. [News Source]

Chemicals are good for you. Alarmist claims of the kind made about pesticides and health in the Caribbean undermine public confidence in chemicals and lead to misguided policies that would cause more harm to the environment and health. [News Source]

Making a careful catch. Study released last week by San Francisco Estuary Institute reported that, in some cases, waterways and fish that inhabit them are unsafe for humans because of mercury contamination. [News Source]

A well-traveled breakfast. Steve Henn figures his typical family breakfast journeyed 6,000 miles to his kitchen table. It's a symptom of the ever-growing global food trade, and the fossil fuel cost required to move commodities across the planet is growing with it. [News Source]

The 100 mile meal: A homegrown thanksgiving. The food we buy for Thanksgiving can have a big impact on the environment. And a lot more people are starting to look for local ingredients to put in their meals. [News Source]

Junk food ad limits ‘not enough’. Restrictions on television junk food adverts do not properly protect children, say researchers. [News Source]

Putting on the pounds ‘doubles prostate cancer risk.’ The risk of dying from prostate cancer is doubled if the sufferer is carrying too much weight, according to research published today. [News Source]

We have 10,000 lakes, but do we have enough of these? The humble name given to "prairie potholes" -- the ponds, wetlands and small lakes dimpling Minnesota and the eastern Dakotas -- belies the mounting concerns here and nationally about their disappearance from the landscape. [News Source]