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Until last week, I didn't worry much about heart disease. Although heart attacks, angina and cardiac arrest can strike without warning, the odds are in my favor: I'm not overweight, I don't smoke, my blood pressure is good, I eat a low-fat diet, and I get plenty of exercise. While my grandfather had a heart attack at 60, he lived to be 86. And my father, now 75, hasn't had any cardiac problems at all. My total cholesterol is just a little high at 200. My only real risk factor is (deep sigh...
...most at risk? Boys more than girls, especially boys who are overweight. Their heart works so hard to force blood through extra layers of fat that its walls grow more dense. Then, after decades of straining, it grows too big to pump blood very well. Fortunately, the abnormal thickening can be spotted by ultrasound. And in most cases, getting that blood pressure under control--through weight loss and exercise or, as a last resort, drug treatment--allows the overworked muscle to shrink to normal size...
About half the cases of hypertension stem directly from kids being overweight. And the problem is likely to grow. Over the past 30 years, the proportion of U.S. children who are overweight has doubled, from 5% to 11%, or 4.7 million kids...
...paradoxical way, yesterday's classic marked the flip side of Wells's personality--the Everyman. This balding, overweight, middle-aged man, who has more than his fair share of doppelgangers in the Yankee Stadium stands, lived out every fan's fantasy, a collective dream of transcendent excellence...
While anecdotal evidence has long suggested a connection between being overweight and suffering from asthma, Camargo and his colleagues are the first to separate causation from correlation. Tracking a group of nurses from 1991 to 1995, he found that overweight women were considerably more likely to develop adult asthma...