Chronic Diseases Can Start From Poor Childhood Habits
My friend’s son is a genius at multi-tasking. He can watch a video and play on his gameboy at that same time as entertaining his friends. He is a typical 10-year old who needs constant visual stimulation. Part of the new computer-crazy generation. Essentially a couch-potato kid.
A new British study has shown that such lifestyle habits, coupled with junk food and lack of exercise, has reached epidemic proportions in the UK. Over a quarter of the 3500 inner-city secondary children studied were overweight. Only half walked to school. Half of them spent 4 hours a day, or more, watching TV or playing computer games.
In the last decade, the number of obese children has doubled. Since obesity is linked with heart disease and diabetes, this equates to a huge number of children who will not live past the age of 50!
Good lifestyle habits start from childhood. These include eating good food and regular exercise.
Source: Daily Express