Rule No. 2: view statistics from a drug company with a skewed sample and an interest in the outcome, with skepticism.
Rule No. 3: the United States is not homogenous, and general statistics tell you very little.
It's also important to note that heart problems and high blood pressure are largely hereditary and only exacerbated in some cases by obesity. You can be 10 pounds underweight and still have 'the high blood', or you can be 100 pounds overweight and perk along with 120/80 (with good genes).
I lost almost 40 pounds over the past year, and my blood pressure never changed (it was low to begin with - runs in the family. I was never as high as 120/80 except when I was pregnant.)
1.MSNBC was carrying an AP story on medication use. 2. Other studies confirm the same trend. 3. Many other countries are not totally homogenous, that is what statistics are for.
“It’s also important to note that heart problems and high blood pressure are largely hereditary”
This is exactly the lie big pharma would have us believe.
Low blood prssure indicates parasymapthetic dominance and possible hypoadrenia, easily corrected with mineral level modulation, particularly calcium and magnesium.
Cookies No Longer the Top Snack for Kids
In 1987, cookies were the most common snack for children under 6, and fruit ranked second. Today, that order has been reversed; fruit is the most common snack, and cookies are in second place.
In addition, kids today are less likely to consume carbonated soft drinks, ice cream, candy, cake and fruit juice as snacks than kids the same age did 20 years ago.
The information comes from the NPD Group, which tracks national eating trends. The number are based on food and beverage journals from 500 mothers in 1985-1987 and 600 mothers in 2005-2007. The women kept diaries for 14 days on all the foods and beverages consumed by under-age-6 children.
Sources:
USA Today June 11, 2008
I take it your kids are not in the fruit group.