- 41. Vegetarian Diets for Children
- (Nutrition)
- ... diet. Vegetarian diets tend to be high in fiber and polyunsaturated fat, and low in cholesterol and calories. If your child is following a vegetarian diet, you need to guard against nutritional deficiencies. ...
- 42. Making Healthy Food Choices
- (Nutrition)
- ... early in life, and since high-fiber foods contain other nutrients, parents should include these foods in children's daily diets. Protein Your child requires protein for the proper growth and functioning ...
- 43. High Cholesterol Levels in Children
- (Nutrition)
- ... interfering with blood flow, begin in childhood. Blood cholesterol levels may be one indicator of this ongoing disease process. In adults, high levels of total cholesterol and of low-density lipoprotein ...
- 44. Promoting Physical Activity as a Way of Life
- (Fitness)
- ... him feel better, and strengthen his cardiovascular system. Aerobic activity can make the heart pump more efficiently, thus reducing the incidence of high blood pressure. It can also raise blood levels ...
- 45. Childhood obesity
- (Childhood obesity)
- ... troubling because the extra pounds often start children on the path to health problems that were once confined to adults, such as diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Childhood obesity can ...
- 46. Obesity
- (Obesity)
- ... and high blood pressure. Being extremely obese means you are especially likely to have health problems related to your weight. The good news is that even modest weight loss can improve or prevent the ...
- 47. Myocardial ischemia
- (Myocardial ischemia)
- ... with risk factors for heart disease, such as high cholesterol and high blood pressure, but the spasms can happen in people who have no risk factors, too. Coronary artery spasms can also occur in people ...
- 48. Heart attack
- (Heart attack )
- ... among overweight people. Diabetes greatly increases your risk of a heart attack. High blood pressure. Over time, high blood pressure can damage arteries that feed your heart by accelerating atherosclerosis. ...
- 49. Feeding and Nutrition: Your One-Year-Old
- (Nutrition)
- ... just fuel his interest in empty-calorie foods (those that are high in calories but relatively low in important nutrients, such as vitamins and minerals) and diminish his appetite for nutritious ones. Hard ...
- 50. Facts For Fathers About Breastfeeding
- (Breastfeeding)
- ... use the weight (fat stores) they accumulated during pregnancy to produce breast milk. Women who breastfeed for more than twelve months during their lifetime tend to have lower risk of high blood pressure, ...
- 51. Benefits of Breastfeeding for Mom
- (Breastfeeding)
- ... later in life. Some studies have found that breastfeeding may reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and cardiovascular disease, including high blood pressure and high cholesterol. ...
- 52. Mitral valve regurgitation
- (Mitral valve regurgitation)
- ... attack may result in sudden and severe mitral valve regurgitation. This sudden onset of regurgitation is sometimes referred to as acute mitral valve regurgitation. Untreated high blood pressure. Over ...