Snacking is Damaging Health; Michelle Obama is Off Target

Tuesday, March 02, 2010  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

A study published Monday in the journal Health Affairs paints a picture of children who can’t stop eating.  They are addicted to junk food snacks and they just can’t seem to stop.  They are getting larger and hungrier by the minute.  They have three extra meals per day in the form of snacks, composed primarily of utter junk food and junk beverages.  The study is just now being picked up by the national media, although I first reported on it last month when it was also published in the Journal of Nutrition.

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Heart Disease Starts At Age 3 in Obese Kids, Doubles the Risk for Early Death

Tuesday, March 02, 2010  -  Byron J Richards, CCN

Two new studies are more than sufficient to scare the living daylights out of any parent watching their child gain weight.  The first, published in the journal Pediatrics, shows that inflammatory changes that cause heart disease are clearly present at age 3 and steadily worsen up to age 17.  The second, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, shows that childhood obesity is the strongest factor linked to premature disease-associated death, more than doubling the risk.

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