Abstract: . . .  December 2003 Children, adolescents and heart disease Fact sheet The two types of heart disease in children are " congenital " and " acquired . . .
. . .  buy or pester parents to buy. The more children watch food adverts on television, the more snacks and calories they eat (Food Standard Agency, UK, Dec 2003). Nowadays there is a great tendency to snack between meals: In UK, 91% children consume a snack food at least once a day.Children are the main target . . .
. . .  from 12.2 to 15.6% in just 2 years. o Between 5% and 10% of the Chinese youth are considered obese. Even among Chinese pre-school children, obesity rates increased ten- fold to affect one in every 10 children over an eight-year period. Obesogenic environment Studies show . . .
. . .  BMI. Cohort studies show that obesity can be tracked from childhood to adulthood, where morbidity is very evident. (BMJ 2001;322:1094-5) . Obesity in adolescents is directly associated with increased morbidity and mortality in adult life independent of adult body weight. (BMJ 2001;322:1094-5). The risk . . .
. . .  Furthermore, children who are doing more physical activity are likely to be less numerous to smoke (Boreham, L ,A et al, 1997). Schools are becoming less and less a healthy environment. They are not protecting children of unhealthy foods, even most of them are not offering the choice of healthy meals. Furthermore, . . .
. . .  Even though it is considered an older persons disease , stroke is a potential risk for everyone, including children. It can be caused by congenital heart problems, such as Page 2 abnormal valves or infections, by sickle cell disease (the risk of stroke is 300 times  . . .
. . .  higher percentage (>30%) are in Argentina, Chile and Ukraine. Environmental Tobacco smoke Children exposed to second-hand smoke suffer from many of the diseases of active smoking. 700 million children, almost half of all children worldwide, live in a home of a smoker, constituting a substantial public . . .
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