Dr. Geetha Raghuveer, a professor at Missouri's School of Medicine, used ultrasound techniques to detect changes in the neck arteries of 70 obese children and teenagers. She had to match the children's arteries to those of 45 year-olds to develop accurate comparisons. She said "vascular age" is very different from chronological age, and there was no way of knowing if the children's abnormal cholesterol would continue to build up or plateau.
This study was presented at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association.
Children More Likely to Eat Whole Grains if Introduced Gradually
The key to making children and preteens eat whole grain bread may be to introduce it gradually, according to a new study from the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Len Marquart and his colleagues studied the amounts of bread that students in grades kindergarten through sixth threw away over the course of a school year as they gradually added more whole grains to the breads. The students did not throw away significantly more bread once it reached 70 percent whole grain.
This study appears in the Journal of Child Nutrition and Management.
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