Briefing on The Real Facts and Science Behind Soy Nutrition
The Soyfoods Association of North America is please to present this briefing by experts on the Real Facts and Science Behind Soy Nutrition. This briefing presents practical advise on soyfoods and child health. The briefing was recorded on December 10, 2009 and is available for download and playback.
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Guest speakers on the briefing include:
Dr. Alan Greene is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine, an Attending Pediatrician at Packard Children’s Hospital, Senior Fellow at the University California San Francisco Center for the Health Professions, and a father of four.
Dr. Greene is a regular columnist for Kiwi Magazine, and is the online Pediatric Expert for Healthy Kids, and American Baby. He also runs Dr. Greene.com, a source for parents, family members, students, and healthcare professionals to find answers and engage in discussions related to children’s health. He is also the Pediatric Expert for The People’s Pharmacy on NPR and Healing Quest on PBS. DrGreene.com teamed up with Silk soymilk in September of 2009 to help teach families about important issues concerning nutrition and soy.
In addition, Dr. Greene is the author of a number of books, including Feeding Baby Green, Raising Baby Green, and From First Kicks to First Steps.
Stacey Krawczyk is a Research Dietitian for the National Soybean Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Stacey completed her registered dietitian internship as well as received her Master of Science degree in Public Health Nutrition from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Her professional career has concentrated in the area of community nutrition program development, implementation and evaluation, with a primary focus in maternal and child health.
Dr. Thomas Badger is a neuroendocrinologist, nutritionist, professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and the Director of the Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center (one of the six centers in the National Human Nutrition Research Centers Program). For the past 15 years he has focused his research on various aspects of soyfoods, soy protein, soy phytochemicals and soy formula. Currently, he is the Principal Investigator on what appears to be the largest and most comprehensive prospective and longitudinal clinical study of children (birth to age 6 years) who are initially breast fed, fed milk or soy formula (the Beginnings study).
Dr. Arline McDonald is a Senior Nutrition Scientist and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine with Northwestern University Medical School. She recently conducted a comprehensive review of over 35 clinical studies to determine the relationship between soy protein, heart disease and blood cholesterol, and assessed whether the FDA health claim remains valid.
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