Childhood obesity also increases the risk of childhood diseases that were ra
re
when I entered medicine in the 1970s. Such diseases include type 2 diabetes,
high blood pressure, early hardening of arteries, soaring cholesterol levels
,
sleep apnea, stomach and pancreas disease, liver and gall bladder disease,
increased cardiovascular risk factors, early arthritis and many more. In fac
t,
the American Heart Association estimates that 27 million children under the 
age
of 19 have high cholesterol and that 2.2 million have high blood pressure.

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