“Foods given to babies are less nutritious than 10 to 20 years ago,” Dr. Samuel S. Gidding.  He also states, “By 19 months of age, on any given day, one-third of toddlers eat no fruit, and french fries are the most commonly consumed vegetables.   These practices are providing poor nutrition and causing kids to be overweight at their 2 year old check-ups.”

The real impact of heart disease is coming in early death to our kids. 

Dr. Gidding reminds parents that it is important to model healthy behaviors for their children by exercising regularly, eating healthy foods during family meals, and not smoking.

How do you prevent heart disease?

An international survey (27 countries) was released in September, 2005, stating that the bigger your waist size, the more your odds are of having a heart attack.  They also found that only about 60% of doctors knew that.

I was at the pool a few weeks ago and was amazed at the size of the waistline there.

From Professor Sidney Smith of the Geneva-based World Heart Federation; “Measuring waist circumference is a very important measure for cardiovascular risk…it is an easy, low cost indicator that should be added to measurements of their cardiovascular risk factors such as blood pressure, lipid levels, and blood glucose.”

• A waist size of 35 inches for women and 40 inches for men in North America puts them in a high risk category for heart disease.

Abdominal obesity also has been linked to type-2 diabetes and increased blood pressure.

• “Avoid saturated fats”, “Limit cholesterol”, Use Poly unsaturated oils”, “Avoid Red meat”, “Don’t eat egg yolks”, “restrict salt”, you’ve heard it all before.

Every year since they started these recommendations heart disease has gotten worse.  There is no stopping the heart disease juggernaut with those kind of recommendations

• FACT: More than 60% of people with heart attacks have normal cholesterol

• FACT:  50% of all heart attacks victims have none of the standard risks (obesity, smoking, genetics, high cholesterol)  Their heart attack is their first sign of heart problems.

• Cholesterol isn’t the evil monster coming to get you in the middle of the night.

Stay tuned for more really cool info on heart disease that I know you haven’t heard.  I know that is a bold statement, but I’m pretty confident I have a few aces up my sleeve.  There is a new revolution in heart disease and you can be on the front lines.  It will likely be a series of articles.  Enjoy your eggs tomorrow morning.

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