<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9b9fc9cf-8198-4481-8434-fe5fc8ba5be3/471DA8B5-664A-4358-9B10-FC47D9B2B613/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-12-05-child-heart-risk_N.htm" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-12-05-child-heart-risk_N.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.usatoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-12-05-child-heart-risk_N.htm">A growing epidemic of childhood obesity worldwide will lead to an increase of premature heart attacks and strokes, say two studies out today.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-12-05-child-heart-risk_N.htm">Taken together, doctors say, the studies provide new evidence that excess weight does affect a child's long-term risk of heart disease and life expectancy. Previous studies have yielded conflicting results.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-12-05-child-heart-risk_N.htm">"The entire argument will be irrelevant, once the full effects of the childhood obesity epidemic are felt," says David Ludwig of Children's Hospital in Boston</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-12-05-child-heart-risk_N.htm">The higher a child's body mass index</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-12-05-child-heart-risk_N.htm">the higher his risk of getting heart disease</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-12-05-child-heart-risk_N.htm"><P>Childhood obesity in the U.S. will lead to a glut of heart attacks, strokes, episodes of avoidable chest pain, medical procedures and deaths.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-12-05-child-heart-risk_N.htm"><TABLE width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2" border="0"><TBODY><TR><TD class="vaTextBold">Year</TD><TD class="vaTextBold">Excess crises</TD><TD class="vaTextBold">Needless Deaths</TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="3"><IMG width="100%" height="1" src="http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/ipr/grey.gif" /></TD></TR><TR><TD class="vaText">2020</TD><TD class="vaText">600 </TD><TD class="vaText">130 </TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="3"><IMG width="100%" height="1" src="http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/ipr/grey.gif" /></TD></TR><TR><TD class="vaText">2025 </TD><TD class="vaText">5,400 </TD><TD class="vaText">550 </TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="3"><IMG width="100%" height="1" src="http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/ipr/grey.gif" /></TD></TR><TR><TD class="vaText">2030 </TD><TD class="vaText">11,000 </TD><TD class="vaText">1,500 </TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="3"><IMG width="100%" height="1" src="http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/ipr/grey.gif" /></TD></TR><TR><TD class="vaText">2035</TD><TD class="vaText">37,000 </TD><TD class="vaText">3,700 </TD></TR><TR><TD colspan="3"><IMG width="100%" height="1" src="http://images.usatoday.com/_common/_images/ipr/grey.gif" /></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-12-05-child-heart-risk_N.htm">Fitness resources and success stories</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-12-05-child-heart-risk_N.htm">A 13-year-old boy in the highest weight category increased his risk of having a heart attack or other heart-related problem by 33%</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/471DA8B5-664A-4358-9B10-FC47D9B2B613/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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