As a clinician working with obese children, I make various recommendations to parents regarding nutrition, responsible lifestyle and physical activity.  

Recently, my father had to have cataract surgery which prompted a visit to the cardiologist. Seizing on the opportunity, I asked the cardiologist to comment on the benefits of various recommendations I make to parents of overweight children as a nutritionist diet coach and workshop designer.

He shared insights and summed it up this way. “If adults actually parented their children in the ways you suggest, and if they lived in harmony with your recommendations, at least 90 percent of heart disease and associated disease would be eliminated.” He went on to share that patients of his who have had to undergo various heart surgeries swear to him that they will change how they live and fuel themselves. Six months to a year later, most of them are back to the degenerative habits of their pre-surgery days.

Is it any wonder obese children with heart disease is spiking?