Risk factors involved in the early onset and severity of childhood obesity
Childhood obesity is linked to a family history of obesity, cardiovascular and metabolic disease: Frontiers in Endocrinology [...]
Heart disease
High altitude living decreases the risk of heart disease
This new research links living at high altitudes and the risk to initially healthy people developing all the criteria that make up the Metabolic Syndrome. [...]
Just ten weeks of exercise can protect heart
— by Emily Barker, Frontiersin.org Just ten-weeks of exercise is nearly 100% effective at protecting the heart from potentially lethal changes in heart rhythms. [...]