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An article from the Austin, Texas Statesman covers the risks of tummy fat in children.

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WASHINGTON — Evidence that a woman will be in danger of developing diabetes or heart trouble might appear by the time she is only 10 or 11 years old, scientists are reporting today.

The evidence is the presence of tummy fat.

Researchers tracked the health of more than 1,000 black and white girls in Cincinnati and Washington from when they were 10 or 11 years old until they were 18 or 19.

The scientists concluded in an article appearing in the scientific journal Pediatrics that having a larger waistline at the beginning of adolescence meant a 16 percent increase in the likelihood that by the time she was 18 or 19 a girl would be at risk of having diabetes or heart trouble.

However, girls who had larger-than-average waistlines as adolescents but trimmed down by the time they were young women were not at increased risk of the diseases.

Tummy fat, which the researchers called central adiposity, turned out to be more important than having high blood pressure or abnormal levels of triglycerides, glucose or cholesterol in childhood, the researchers from the University of Cincinnati and the National Institutes of Health reported.

Read the whole article. It has very good information in it. Let’s kick out diabetes in our young.