If your kids won't eat, they could be more likely to have heart problems later in life. You may remember from earlier posts that my kids are not great eaters. I feel like we are constantly trying to find something healthy they will eat. Sometimes I even buy things I know are unhealthy like pot pies and lunchables (loads of sodium and preservatives) in an effort to get them to eat something! I seriously think I need to come up with a way for parents to package their healthy food at home. If the food I try and get my kids to eat comes in a pre-packaged bag, they are so much more likely to eat it. I don't know what the appeal is to those little, colorful bags, but they love them!
FROM NBC: Not eating enough in childhood and young adulthood increases the risk of heart disease later in life. Researchers at the University of Amsterdam studied more than 78-hundred young women, up to age 21, who lived in the Netherlands during a period of severe food shortage.
They found that women who went hungry and lost weight during the famine and were between age ten and 17 had a 38 percent increased risk of heart disease when compared to women who did not starve. The food shortage was from 1944 to 1945.
-NewsAnchorMom Jen