Health News - Saturday, January 20, 2007
Focus on reducing threats to the heart should start much early, as soon as early childhood, U.S. experts said. If more parents instilled heart-healthy habits from the time their children were toddlers, they could greatly reduce their kids' risk of future problems, the Health Day News online service said on Friday, quoting U.S. experts.
"The message is that a healthy diet early in life potentially has long-term benefits," said Dr. Robert Eckel, a professor of physiology and biophysics at the University of Colorado, and former president of the American Heart Association. Continue reading
British researchers have found why childhood trauma caused by abuse increases a person's risk of developing disease later in life, the New Scientist reported in it latest issue on Saturday. Previous studies have suggested that childhood trauma increases a person's risk of developing heart disease, diabetes and other disorders normally associated with obesity in adulthood.
Researchers studying inflammation in the bloodstream at King's College London monitored 1,000 people in New Zealand from birth to the age of 32, noting any factors that created stress, and recorded levels of C-reactive protein in their blood, which is a marker of inflammation and has been linked to heart disease. Continue reading