Both subcutaneous fat and visceral fat in the abdominal area are serious health risk factors, but science has shown that having excessive visceral fat is even more dangerous than subcutaneous fat. Both of them greatly increase the risk your risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, sleep apnea, various forms of cancer, and other degenerative diseases.
What a great study, it makes sense that kids would favor low glycemic diets, in my opinion they are less physically stressful. There is nothing more heartbreaking that seeing an obese child. One component of diet/ weight loss is calories which are easier to monitor at home than when eating out. When the FDA implements its restaurant calorie transparency measure it should go a long way to helping parents make smart decisions about what their kids eat out. Right now there is a site called ThinDish which is a free public search that lists food at restaurants that are under 600 calories which is a good step in the right direction but there is a lot of work to be done federally to get restaurants to comply on a mass scale.
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