Nothing shocking here for me, since I eat at Millennium all the time. But Time Magazine recently converted another carnivore with a review of the best vegan restaurant in San Francisco: “With charmoula (North African-style) grilled portobello mushroom, maple-glazed smoked tempeh, various rich curries and inventive salads, he has proven that he can take what die-hard carnivores sarcastically term ‘rabbit food’ and turn it into the kind of meal that lingers long in the memory.”

On the Huffington Post, Oprah-certified vegan guru Kathy Freston writes up how recent diet studies were flawed and what actually works: “The very-low-fat vegetarian diets work long-term because they focus on the consumption of fiber and complex carbohydrates, which make you feel full without a lot of empty fat calories, so adherents needn’t keep food logs, restrict food intake, or count calories–in other words, they take advantage of the nature of food.”

Soy Intake in Childhood Reduces Breast Cancer Risk Later in Life

A new study looking at more than 1,500 Asian-American women living in California and Hawaii showed that those with the highest intake of soy during childhood (younger than 12 years old) had a 60 percent lower risk of developing breast cancer later in life. Regular soy consumption in adolescence (12 to 19 years old) and adulthood (20 years old and older) also had a protective effect but with 20 and 25 percent reductions in risk, respectively. (1)

Prior studies have shown similar protective effects of soy consumption before adulthood. (2,3,4)

1. Korde LA, Wu AH, Fears T, et al. Childhood soy intake and breast cancer risk in Asian-American women. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009;18:OF1-OF10.
2. Shu XO, Jin F, Dai Q, et al. Soyfood intake during adolescence and subsequent risk of breast cancer among Chinese women. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2001;10:483-488.
3. Wu AH, Wan P, Hankin J, Tseng CC, Yu MC, Pike MC. Adolescent and adult soy intake and risk of breast cancer in Asian-Americans. Carcinogenesis. 2002;23:1491-1496.
4. Thanos J, Cotterchio M, Boucher BA, Kreiger N, Thompson LU. Adolescent dietary phytoestrogen intake and breast cancer risk (Canada). Cancer Causes Control. 2006;17:1253-1261.