Does the clock start ticking at age 10?
Heart attack may become a pediatric illness!
In other words, obesity in adolescents means they are at greater risk for heart disease in adults.
This isn’t speculation–it’s from a world-class study of over 270,000 Danish kids, age 7 to 13, studied at age 25, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Diets don’t usually solve the problem.
Most weight loss programs recommend diets, but most people–kids and adults–fail on diets.
News flash: it’s not kids’ fault. They need school programs or family programs instead.
How to start?
Let’s stop letting schools become fast food franchises.
Let’s ban high-calorie snacks, sugary juices and pop and energy drinks from school stores, cafeterias and vending machines
Let’s get better programs for schools, that don’t involve fast food subsidies of report cards, as they do in some parts of Florida!
Let’s get a Farm Bill that gives subsidies to producers of nutritious produce, not King Corn—which is high calorie, and low nutrient.
Let’s get schools that kick out the purveyors of childhood obesity…which clearly leads to diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver and colorectal cancer, and 7 other cancers …all formerly diseases of adults.
Soon to be the shape of your kids, unless you act now.