Illinois Migrant Council urges cancer screenings for farmworkers, Latinos (Chicago Tribune) Non-profit group helps state's farmworkers, many of whom are migrant Latinos, get access to free cancer screenings and other services [News Source]

Birds, Bugs Named as Steroid Users! (New York Times) Baseball players may not be the only animals looking to gain an advantage by using steroids. [News Source]

Celebrate Kwanzaa Be Ready to Start the New Year Off Healthy (Today’s News-Herald) (Family Features) Kwanzaa is a seven day African American celebration with focus on traditional values of family, community responsibility, commerce, and self-improvement. [News Source]

Celebrate Kwanzaa (Watertown Daily Times) (Family Features) Kwanzaa is a seven day African American celebration with focus on traditional values of family, community responsibility, commerce, and self-improvement. [News Source]

Celebrate Kwanzaa (Watertown Daily Times) (Family Features) Kwanzaa is a seven day African American celebration with focus on traditional values of family, community responsibility, commerce, and self-improvement. [News Source]

Student team revved over their invention (The Champaign News-Gazette) CHAMPAIGN – Team One named its new snack bar Rev, to connect the treat to the team's target audience. It's a name that works on different levels, said the Parkland College students, who designed and made the snack bar for exercising men and women who need to load carbs for energy. They made the bar, and with graphic design students, helped develop an advertising campaign to promote it to ... [News Source]

Organic Advantage (The Morning News) SAN FRANCISCO -- Fans of eating organic have always believed that organic fruits and vegetables packed a bigger nutritional punch than conventionally grown produce. [News Source]

The real villain behind steep rise in food prices. The steep rise in food prices can largely be pinned on the current American administration's blinkered desire to promote alternatives to oil. [News Source]

Governor has wrong information on polar bears’ plight. Gov. Sarah Palin's opposition to Endangered Species Act protection for the polar bear is, unfortunately, premised on misinformation. [News Source]

New Year brings bottled water tax (Chicago Tribune) Retailers fear it will push customers out to suburbs In her never-ending effort to maintain her health and appearance, Jill Walker credits bottled water with improving her digestion, maintaining her skin's elasticity and keeping her away from sugary soda. [News Source]

After circumnavigation, sailor on a mission (Asbury Park Press) For sailors heading westward toward Australia, the islands of Vanuatu appear on the horizon as another South Pacific paradise of wide beaches and volcanic peaks. [News Source]

NUTRITION IQ (The Columbus Dispatch) Healthful eating The Dole Nutrition Institute site, www.dolenutrition.com , has lots of valuable information about fruits, vegetables, fiber and fat. Here's a true-or-false quiz based on Dole research: [News Source]