Linda Van Horn: In childhood when life style behaviors have been formulated the initiation of something has divested is obesity can have a life long tall.
Host: The numbers are alarming 9 million American children are considered over weight or obese as a result, there are risk for higher rates of heart disease, diabetes, and asthma, poor diet and lack of exercise are obvious contributive, but some factors are not as easy to spot, giving children unhealthy odds for the rest of their lives.
The scale tells us scary story.
Rae-Ellen Kavey: The first finger food that most children in this country eat is French fries.
Host: Combine that with lack of exercise and an aggressive attitude.
Speaker 2: Moderators as if like you just got a fight.
Host: And you have got a generation at risk.
Rae-Ellen Kavey: They are more likely to get heart disease sooner.
Host: Like most 7 year olds Nick doesn't worry about exercise or diet.
Nick: When the next time we go out to a pizza hut?
Host: But when his weight hit 97 pounds, his doctor did worry.
Linda Van Horn: We are finding younger and younger ages of children coming in with type two diabetes.
Host: Diabetes is not the only concern so it's heart disease. In fact the Chinese study shows the arteries of over weight children are similar to those of middle age smokers.
Rae-Ellen Kavey: I believe we need to start counseling parents about how to feed their children beginning at first.
Host: A heart healthy diet starts with breast feeding, switching children to skimmed milk at age 2 eliminating juice and ditching sweeten soft drinks.
Linda Van Horn: One of the easiest behavioral tips that I can offer as a parent myself, is the fruit first food.
Host: Nutritionist Linda Van Horn says make a fruit or vegetable the first item on the table followed by the reminder of the meal.
Linda Van Horn: Once those foods have been consumed, children are frankly less hungry, Nick is slowly getting used to a healthier diet and its benefits.
Nick: I have lot more energy.
Host: But the experts agree parents can go with alone.
Phil Lawler: The only African add takes with crises we have, I think we need to add a word that takes ability towards the healthy child.
Host: Phil Lawler believes school should set higher goals.
Phil Lawler: We looked at the health care crises across country and the obesity crises we thought that we better revaluate whether we need physical occasional school student, right good.
Host: He created a program called PE for life, which aims at bringing physical education classes back to school.
Phil Lawler: We want to take their generation of the video generation and bring somethings to them that put it to them they will get them active.
Host: In tidal school Pennsylvania the very technology that has kids glue to the couch, is now being used deprive them often.
Tim Mc cord: We have video games that are hoped to our exercise bikes and we have dance stands revolution, watch the video game with the kids dance to follow the game.
Host: Educator Tim Mc cord let his district in to a new era of physical education.
Tim Mc cord: We've also infuse technology break time into our physical education program.
Host: By using heart rate monitors and assessment software kids monitor their own progress.
Tim Mc cord: All kids could be successful in our physical education classes now. Even non athletes in video game jumps.
Micah Cattle: You don't feel like exercising but then you show your heart, and you can only feel beating really heart.
Alex Frieden: Compare to other exercise this is a lot more fun.
Female Speaker: I contact is so important makes you believable good.
Host: Other educators are helping his learnt to manage another threat to the long term health. You got a control that end.
Kristen Solomon: Hostel kids are more likely to get heart disease later in life.
Host: Kristen Solomon's studied how hostel attitude affect childrens health.
Kristen Solomon: Their blood pressure was slightly higher than other kids, they had greater insulin resistance.
Female Speaker: Is called just only kind of sir.
Host: Kids in this anger management class are here because they got in trouble with a lot.
Leonard Ingram: Anger suppressed over time equal range, equal balanced. And so the key to see that going to explore or implore.
Host: The instructors give them tools to control the anger that is a natural part of life.
Leonard Ingram: Something is simple for incidence teaching then how to breathe, as the major up calm themselves down.
Host: By teaching how to put anger when it's placed instructors hope kids can avoid the immediate dangers.
Male Speaker: I just wait, I let it pass.
Host: And the long term ones.
Rae-Ellen Kavey: Heart disease is not something that you wake up with it starts in child hood, and If you can start to work on the problems and the things that cause heart disease really in child hood, you may do a lot to prevent it later on.
Host: Expert say parents need to realize hostel behavior is not something a child will automatically out grow, seek help if your child is easily provoked or displace anger in appropriate way.
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