"Pate's story reinforces what numerous medical studies say: American youths are getting less active and fatter. Medical experts say many of these couch-bound youths are becoming coronary time bombs -- they're more liable to suffer from heart disease as adults...Kudos, you nutritional child abusing fatsos.
The prevalence of overweight children and adolescents between ages 6 and 19 has tripled since 1970, a 2007 New England Journal of Medicine study found.
'Our study suggests that more of these young adults will have heart disease when they are 35-50 years old, resulting in more hospitalizations, medical procedures, need for chronic medications, missed work days and shortened life expectancy,' said Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, lead author of the study.
A study released last November at a Heart Association conference found that the neck arteries in obese and overweight children were similar to those of 45-year-olds. The children in the study also had 'abnormal cholesterol' and were said to be at high risk for heart disease in the future."
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Studies suggest overweight kids are coronary time bombs
Fat parents have fat kids.
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