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obesity in children and heart health
University of Michigan Health Minute update It is difficult for a lot of kids to resist the tasty temptations – cookies, shakes, French fries, soft drinks and pizza – being offered at their school cafe's that are not offered at home, and even some not-so-healthy treats tucked away in their lunch boxes.
Those unhealthy eating habits, taken together with the increasing rate of obesity among America's young children, have lead the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center to come together to teach students a very important lesson: how to lead a heart-healthy lifestyle to reduce their future risk for heart attack and diabetes. Their effort, Project Healthy Schools, will start this fall in one Ann Arbor middle school to educate students on how to make better lifestyle and eating choices. |
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As part of Project Healthy Schools, the school's vending machines will be updated to offer healthier snack and beverage choices, and lunchroom menu options will reflect a heart-healthier approach. Plus, the project will emphasize the importance of physical activity. If Project Healthy Schools proves to be a success, Kim Eagle, M.D., the clinical director of the Cardiovascular Center at the U-M Health System, hopes the program will become a prototype for other schools to follow across the nation. “We know that if students exercise and eat right, they perform better in school,” he says. “They feel better, they have a better body image and they live longer, healthier lives.” |
Currently twenty-two percent of children in the United States are considered obese. These kids will face a range of health issues, including diabetes and cardiovascular disease, often at a young age.
And what's really alarming, Eagle says, is that as many as one third of new diabetics are children between the ages of ten and twenty, which increases their risk for cardiovascular disease later in life.
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