Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Take Your Kid to McDonalds and give her heart disease

It is a well documented KNOWN FACT that if you eat at McDonalds regularly you will develop high cholesterol. When my kids were little, in the 1980s I didn't think about that much... and I'm sure they will pay a price for this.


Child Obesity Seen as Warning of Heart Disease



New York Times
November 12, 2008
NEW ORLEANS — A new study finds striking evidence that children who are obese or have high cholesterol show early warning signs of heart disease.

The study, presented Tuesday at the American Heart Association conference in New Orleans, found that the thickness of artery walls of children and teenagers who are obese or have high cholesterol resembled the thickness of artery walls of an
average 45-year-old...more



Below is a clip of the first 10 minutes of "Super Size Me"

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