Working in garden teaches children to live healthy lifestyle (Carroll County Online) Experts say for a healthier lifestyle people need to choose a mixture of fruits and vegetables. The more diverse colors of fruits and vegetables that people include in their diets, the greater variety of nutrients, vitamins and minerals can be obtained. [News Source]

Mother’s junk food ‘harms child’. Eating a poor diet when pregnant or breastfeeding may cause long-lasting health damage to the child, animal studies suggest. [News Source]

Miracle diet from the Med. Adopting elements of a Mediterranean-style diet, which is high in fruit and vegetables and low on red meat and dairy produce, can reduce the risk of cancer by almost a quarter, according to a major study of people's eating habits. [News Source]

Cancers linked to lifestyle still on rise, especially in Scotland. Cancers linked to lifestyle are rising across much of Europe, with Scotland seeing some of the highest rates of the disease, research suggested yesterday. [News Source]

Study shows how broccoli fights cancer. The researchers believe a chemical in the food sparks hundreds of genetic changes, activating some genes that fight cancer and switching off others that fuel tumors, said Richard Mithen, a biologist at Britain's Institute of Food Research. [News Source]

‘Good’ cholesterol a dementia risk. Too little of one type of cholesterol has been linked by research to memory loss and Alzheimer's disease. [News Source]

Exercise recommendations may not curb kids’ weight. Health experts generally recommend that children get at least one hour of moderate exercise each day, but that may not be enough to counter the problem of childhood obesity, a UK study suggests. [News Source]

Call to rethink child BMI testing. Using a child's body mass index (BMI) as a measure of the success of exercise targets may be misleading, say experts. [News Source]

Population-wide approach needed to curb obesity. A broad range of policy and environmental initiatives at the local, state and federal levels aimed at increasing physical activity and healthful eating is needed to reduce rates of obesity in the United States, according to an American Heart Association. [News Source]

Study: red rice yeast helps cut bad cholesterol. A dietary supplement called red rice yeast, combined with fish oil and healthy lifestyle changes, can help reduce "bad" cholesterol as effectively as the statin drug Zocor, new research suggests. [News Source]

Catch of the day? Wild salmon is threatened, and the farm-bred alternative raises concerns. [News Source]

Water the common culprit in tomato contamination. Pick a tomato in the blazing sun and plunge it straight into cold water. If that happened on the way to market, it might be contaminated. [News Source]