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- $Title{Cholesterol and Kids}
- $Subject{cholesterol child care diet diets food foods heart disease obesity
- smoking nutrition life styles attitudes}
- $Volume{S-26}
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- How Cholesterol Levels Affect the Arteries*0002701.scf}
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- Cholesterol and Kids
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- QUESTION: It is hard enough to control my teenagers' eating habits when it
- comes to calories and junk food. I now see that mothers have to worry about
- cholesterol in their kids as well. Won't it be time enough to worry when they
- are adults and on their own? I don't see how what they do now can seriously
- effect them too much later on when they grow out of it.
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- ANSWER: There is more to it than you suspect, but the fact is that what you
- manage to instill in your young people now can have a life time benefit for
- them. Research has demonstrated that when children between the ages of 8 and
- 18 with high cholesterol levels were examined as young adults age 20 to 30,
- 43% were again found to have high cholesterol levels. Family history of heart
- disease was another related factor, as was obesity and smoking. It is
- therefore not merely a question of learning the basics of good nutrition, but
- also establishing the proper life styles and attitudes towards health in
- general that will make a big difference in the end. It may be that we can not
- always control the genes we pass on to our offspring, but when we establish
- the proper home environment that helps teach lessons that lead to healthful
- habits, we can feel good about the contribution we have made to the next
- generation.
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- The material contained here is "FOR INFORMATION ONLY" and should not replace
- the counsel and advice of your personal physician. Promptly consulting your
- doctor is the best path to a quick and successful resolution of any medical
- problem.
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