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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/01/AR2007030100552.html
Do Early Growth Spurts Protect Against Bad Cholesterol?
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
Thursday, March 1, 2007; 12:00 AM
THURSDAY, March 1 (HealthDay News) -- Children who are tall as
toddlers or grow fast during their teenage years are more likely to
have lower cholesterol levels as adults, British researchers report.
On the other hand, people who gain excess weight after age 15 run a
higher risk of higher cholesterol levels, according to the study.
"Children who grew more slowly in height in the first two years of
life had higher total cholesterol levels in adulthood. And those who
had a high body mass index in adulthood also had higher levels of
total cholesterol," said lead author Paula Skidmore, a researcher at
the School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice at the University
of East Anglia, in Norwich.
The results are published in the March issue of theJournal of
Epidemiology and Community Health.
For the study, Skidmore's team collected data on 2,311 men and women
who participated in the Medical Research Council long term study. All
the participants were born in one week of March 1946. They had their
height and weight measured at ages of 2, 4, 7, 15, 36 and 53. At 53,
blood samples were taken to determine cholesterol levels.
The researchers found that the more height gained before age 2 and
after age 15, the lower the cholesterol levels at age 53. Lower
cholesterol levels were more strongly associated with leg length
rather than trunk length.
Conversely, higher body fat levels at ages 36 and 53, and more rapid
weight gain between 15 and 53, were associated with higher total
cholesterol levels, including higher levels of the harmful low density
lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, the researchers found.
Skidmore said it's "vital that parents are aware of the importance of
nutrition in pregnancy and childhood."
It's also vital that children be taught about -- and encouraged to eat
-- healthful diets, Skidmore said. "There is a large amount of
information publicly available on healthy eating, and further research
is needed to investigate the factors that prevent people from eating
healthily," she added.
One expert thinks this study finding may have a basis in human
biology.
"This is a very interesting article, suggesting that a gain in height
or body mass during one's youth may affect their cholesterol profile
when they are in their 50s," said Dr. Byron K. Lee, an assistant
professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
"This is biologically plausible, since we know that hormones and their
interaction can have a great effect on both growth and circulating
cholesterol levels," Lee said. "This may mean that even at a very
young age, we need to take preventative measures to avoid heart
disease many years down the road."
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Height comes primarily from eating plenty of real foods and fewer
grain-based nutrient deficient manufactured crap foods.
And excess weight comes primarily from too many grain-based nutrient
deficient manufactured crap foods and fewer real foods.
So to recap:
real food = good height, low weight, normal cholesterol
manufactured high carb fake foods= poor height, obesity and abormal
cholesterol.
It all makes so much sense once you undertand the "paradoxes" of
modern US mainstream nutritional science.
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