Fast Weight Loss

Heart disease doesn’t just happen. Diet, exercise habits, and genetics all contribute to risk. So does obesity.

And not just overweight or obese adults, even young children – like six year olds – can begin to show signs of cardiovascular disease.

Published in the journal Pediatrics, researchers found higher levels of C-reactive protein – a marker for artery inflammation and heart disease – among obese children.

High C-reactive protein levels were evident in overweight children ages 6 and 9.

Here’s the problem. Adults know – because they are bombarded with messages – that being overweight, not exercising enough, and eating poorly aren’t healthy, but young children are more oblivious.

So the researchers say obtaining C-reactive protein levels in obese children could help motivate parents and doctors to intervene.

Via HealthDay News.

Image credit: Daily Fork

This entry was posted on Monday, March 1st, 2010 at 3:14 pm and is filed under Fitness, Nutrition & Health, heart disease, teenagers & children. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Heart disease doesn’t just happen. Diet, exercise habits, and genetics all contribute to risk. So does obesity.

And not just overweight or obese adults, even young children – like six year olds – can begin to show signs of cardiovascular disease.

Published in the journal Pediatrics, researchers found higher levels of C-reactive protein – a marker for artery inflammation and heart disease – among obese children.

High C-reactive protein levels were evident in overweight children ages 6 and 9.

Here’s the problem. Adults know – because they are bombarded with messages – that being overweight, not exercising enough, and eating poorly aren’t healthy, but young children are more oblivious.

So the researchers say obtaining C-reactive protein levels in obese children could help motivate parents and doctors to intervene.

Via HealthDay News.

Image credit: Daily Fork

This entry was posted on Monday, March 1st, 2010 at 3:14 pm and is filed under Fitness, Nutrition & Health, heart disease, teenagers & children. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.