Heart disease risk starts at age 9 if your daughter is overweight.

And the risk for obesity accelerates during puberty: girls overweight during childhood were 11 to 30 times more likely to be obese in young adulthood.

A study of 1166 Caucasian girls and 1213 African American girls over 10 years, funded by the U.S. government, shows that this problem is getting worse…and it is worse for African American girls than others.

Risk factors tracked were waist, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, triglyceride (fat) levels, LDL (lousy) and HDL (healthy) cholesterol. All were unhealthy in overweight girls.

Like daughter, sadly, like Mother and Father. If you are an overweight parent, get help so you can model for your kids.