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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Being fat aged nine can lead to raised heart disease risk

(The Daily Telegraph)
AURORA, CO - NOVEMBER 20: Karley Workman, 14, examines a healthy snack during the Shapedown program for overweight adolescents and children on November 20, 2010 in Aurora, Colorado. The 10-week family-centered program held by the Denver area Children's Hospital teaches youth and their parents ways to lead a healthier more active lifestyle, as a longer lasting weight-loss alternative to dieting. Nationally, some 15 percent of children are overweight or obese, as are some 60 percent of adults. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

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Being fat aged nine can lead to raised heart disease risk = Fear hastens, as in a greedier bloated kid eating candies!
(by Maurice Goddard)

1 comments:

  1. Childhood obesity may be a consequence of both genetic and environmental influences. Assessing family members for any compulsive tendency might save years of suffering in the child if it leads to early diagnosis of an eating disorder and to appropriate continuing treatment for an addictive nature. Simply losing weight will not help , other than in purely physical terms, because it will be likely to be put on again - as in all dietary regimes. Childhood obesity

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