THE news is not good. "Heart disease begins in childhood," reports the National Institute of Health in the USA. A recent examination of 360 randomly selected youngsters ages 7-12 revealed that 98 percent of the children already had three or more risk factors.
The trend is now seen in Tanzania where children from affluent society of the so called executives, managers, doctors, nurses, engineers, teachers, parliamentarians, lecturers and business community have children who are already over weight and obese. Unfortunately we are not growing healthy kids.
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