30 times more likely
There was a study released today that suggested girls as young as 9 are at serious heart risk if they are overweight.
They were also 11 to 30 times more likely to be overweight in adulthood. Not surprisingly they were also 3 to 10 times more likely to have high blood pressure, bad cholesterol, and triglyceride levels.
Big surprise.
Here's a quote from the article, ""The challenge for clinicians, community leaders, researchers, and public health officials will be to develop effective innovative obesity prevention interventions that can be widely generalized and disseminated, so that the dire prediction that deaths related to obesity will soon become the leading cause of mortality in the United States does not come to pass."
What about the parents? SInce when is it the responsibility of clinicians, community leaders, researchers, and public health officials to stop you from letting your kids get fat? It's not.
Obesity is not something that just happens. There are reasons for it and ways to make sure it will not happen.
Everyday there is a new story about "adult obesity related diseases" being diagnosed in children younger and younger. This is not going to go away on it's own. It is only going to get worse.
Get those kids active and eating right so yours won't be one of the casualties.
Train smart,
RL
They were also 11 to 30 times more likely to be overweight in adulthood. Not surprisingly they were also 3 to 10 times more likely to have high blood pressure, bad cholesterol, and triglyceride levels.
Big surprise.
Here's a quote from the article, ""The challenge for clinicians, community leaders, researchers, and public health officials will be to develop effective innovative obesity prevention interventions that can be widely generalized and disseminated, so that the dire prediction that deaths related to obesity will soon become the leading cause of mortality in the United States does not come to pass."
What about the parents? SInce when is it the responsibility of clinicians, community leaders, researchers, and public health officials to stop you from letting your kids get fat? It's not.
Obesity is not something that just happens. There are reasons for it and ways to make sure it will not happen.
Everyday there is a new story about "adult obesity related diseases" being diagnosed in children younger and younger. This is not going to go away on it's own. It is only going to get worse.
Get those kids active and eating right so yours won't be one of the casualties.
Train smart,
RL
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