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Healthy Thanksgiving Cooking Class for Harlem Kids (The Epoch Times)

More than 100 pre-K and 1st graders at P.S 197 in Harlem’s East Side got excited about Thanksgiving cooking.

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Fat kids show early signs of heart damage (Baltimore Sun)

NEW ORLEANS Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds and other heart abnormalities that greatly raise their risk of heart disease, say doctors who used ultrasound tests to take a peek inside. The studies were reported yesterday at an American Heart Association conference. About a third of American children are overweight and one-fifth are obese. Many parents think that ...

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Get Active: Impact your children’s lives – start today (The Valdosta Daily Times)

Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds and other heart abnormalities that greatly raise their risk of heart disease, say doctors who used ultrasound tests to take a peek inside.

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New threat from obesity seen (The Lafayette Daily Advertiser)

CQ Press, an agency of the Congressional Quarterly, lists Louisiana as the nation's second unhealthiest state. One reason for the shameful ranking is a high prevalence of obesity. The American Heart Association says the percentage of Louisiana children who are overweight and afflicted with Type 2 diabetes is higher than it has ever been.

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Fat kids found to have arteries of 45-year-olds (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds and other heart abnormalities that greatly raise their risk of heart disease, say doctors who used ultrasound tests to take a peek inside. "As the old saying goes, you're as old as your arteries are," said Dr. Geetha Raghuveer of Children's Hospital in Kansas City, who led one of the studies. "This is a wake-up call." The studies ...

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NEW ORLEANS: Young obese kids have old arteries, doctors say (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds and other heart abnormalities that greatly raise their risk of heart disease, say doctors who used ultrasound tests to take a peek inside. The studies were reported Tuesday at an American Heart Association conference.

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Obese kids found with middle age arteries (The Buffalo News)

NEW ORLEANS -- Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds and other heart abnormalities that greatly raise their risk of heart disease, according to doctors who used ultrasound tests to take a peek inside.

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'Fat kids have arteries of 45-year-olds' (Sydney Morning Herald)

Australian and research using ultrasound tests is a wake-up call for parents, says team.

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Fat kids found to have arteries of 45-year-olds (The West Australian)

Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds and other heart abnormalities greatly increasing their risk of heart disease, according to US and Australian research using ultrasound te

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Obese kids' arteries look like middle-aged adults' (The Kansas City Star)

NEW ORLEANS | Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of 45-year-olds, say doctors who used ultrasound tests to take a peek inside.

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