Heart Damage May Start Early If Children Have Poor Diet.

the overall heart health” of children in the US “falls short,” citing a study by Northwestern University researchers. The findings, published March 17 in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, found that while “most of the nearly 9,000 children they studied had healthy blood pressure levels, 40 percent did not have good cholesterol levels, almost none ate a healthy diet regularly and 30 percent were overweight or obese.” Dr. Sarah Samaan, a cardiologist at Legacy Heart Center in Plano, TX, said, “Obese kids and adults are far more likely to develop high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis and heart disease, so we should not accept this as the ‘new normal.’” http://consumer.healthday.com/circulatory-system-information-7/blood-pressure-news-70/bad-diets-jeopardizing-kids-future-heart-health-study-finds-697499.html