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It turns out that childhood obesity leads to a lot more than just fat adults.  A study has now found that  even in cases in which obese children later lose weight, the health effects of childhood obesity may be long-lasting and profound, according to newswise.com. "The earlier you are exposed to obesity, the earlier we may see the onset of complications including type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome and cancer. That makes sense: these complications don’t happen overnight, and the earlier you start the ball rolling, the earlier and more likely you are to see early morbidity and mortality from them," the Web site reports. But there's more. Kids’ maturing bodies may be especially vulnerable to the detrimental health effects of obesity. "Early exposure can make you much more predisposed to complications than might exposure once the body is done maturing. It may be that childhood obesity changes the way the whole metabolism is working – and ch...

Here's an interesting fact.   Meatless cafeterias save as many lives as smokeless ones.  Or so According to Neal Barnard, M.D., "Mounting evidence demonstrates that consumption—sometimes as little as one serving a day—of meat and other animal products is associated with increased risk of obesity, diabetes, cancer, and other chronic diseases."  The good news is that meat consumption declined by more than 12 percent between 2007 and 2012—"an unprecedented drop," Barnard writes. Kathy Freston writes at The Huffington Post that our country's t hree biggest killers -- heart disease, cancer, and stroke -- "are linked to excessive animal product consumption."  She notes also that vegetarians have much lower risks of all three. People who live on fruits and veggies also have incredibly lower rates of diabetes and obesity than the general population.  So meat is shaping up as a close second to the dangers tobacco can present to your health. ...