Lifestyle Choices In Early Adulthood Can Impact Your Heart Health In Later Life

Right and wrong.

Right:

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle from young adulthood into your 40s is strongly associated with low cardiovascular disease risk in middle age, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.

Wrong:

"The problem is few adults can maintain ideal cardiovascular health factors as they age," said Kiang Liu, first author of the study. "Many middle-aged adults develop unhealthy diets, gain weight and aren't as physically active. Such lifestyles, of course, lead to high blood pressure and cholesterol, diabetes and elevated cardiovascular risk."

Of course they can.

They just choose not to.

Which is why we should stop paying for their diseases of choice.