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Want to look older? Eat a lot!

A new study released this week shows obese children as young as ten years old have the arteries of 45-year-olds, as well as a series of other abnormalities that raise their risk of heart disease. Considering that about a third of American children are overweight, one-fifth are obese, and we don’t even have enough Social Security left for the actual 45-year-olds, this is bad for both health care and the future of our society, though perhaps good news for Gymboree Big & Tall.

Okay, that doesn’t exist.

“As the old saying goes, you’re as old as your arteries are,” Dr. Geetha Raghuveer of a Kansas City children’s hospital told The Associated Press. Despite the fact that I would hardly classify that as an “old saying,” the doc has it right. Kids these days are just piling on the pounds that the rest of us earned after hard-fought battles with “adult things” like beer, and nacho cheese. Read More ›