How Do Young Children Get Heart Disease?

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Children with Obesity At-Risk for Early Heart Disease: Bake Sales & Soda Ban

Obese kids as young as 10 have the arterial changes of someone who has lived several decades longer.  These and other abnormalities put them at significant risk for early heart disease.  So we need to stop thinking that a chubby kid is cute - and we need to dig ourselves out of denial - quickly - for the sake of our kids.

 

So I need to stop hearing people bemoan the news that bake sales to raise money for schools have been outlawed in California schools - did you not just read the dire...

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