10 Year Olds Obese…Have Arteries Of 45 Year Olds!!!

On November 18, 2008 in Weight Loss

(CBS/AP) Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds and other heart abnormalities greatly increasing their risk of heart disease, say doctors who used ultrasound tests to take a peek inside. The studies, reported Tuesday at an American Heart Association conference, found about a third of American children are overweight and one-fifth are obese. “It reiterates what we know - which is there’s an obesity epidemic,” Dr. Travis Stork, host of the T.V. show “The Doctors,” tells C

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