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Kids eating junk food prone to diabetes, heart disesase -Study conducted in DelhiBy djain128, Section Health
Children who eat junk food in cafeteria and other food joints are at risk of early onset of diabetes and heart disease. This has been stated in a project report prepared by Dr Anoop Misra from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). This is a research-based report prepared after talking to children of government and private schools.
"About 33 per cent of schoolchildren eat out three or more times a week, irrespective of their economic status," Dr Anoop Misra from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Convenor of the Diabetes Foundation of India said. The research involved 1,850 children in 18 Delhi schools, both from the private and government sector, he said. The two-year project, "Chetna", is being launched to create awareness on healthy food and lifestyle among schoolchildren to avert the epidemic of diabetes and heart disease. The research, carried out by a team led by Dr Anoop Misra from the Department of Medicine, and Rekha Sharma, a dietician from AIIMS, also revealed that children are consuming more of pizzas, burgers, bread pakoras, samosas, sweets and aerated drinks. "What is the most harmful is the frequent consumption of chips, which are calorie-rich and have high levels of transfatty acid, one of the main culprit in development of these disease," Misra said. Almost all paan shops sell these chips, which are now invading the eating habit of even rural population, he said. The study indicated that the intake of beneficial components in the diet of schoolchildren was much less than the required level while that of harmful ones was high, he said. "For example, consumption of monounsaturated fat, which has preventive effect, was only six per cent in daily diet against recommended level of 15 per cent," Misra said. Saturated fat, which has a role in blocking arteries, almost touched the danger limit of 10 per cent, he added.
Another worrying finding of the study is that the blood profiles of children indicate early appearance of metabolic disturbances, which would otherwise be present in middle-aged people, he said adding "these predict that many of these children will develop early and severe diabetes and heart disease."
Nearly 70 per cent of children in 10 and 12 classes were sedentary and 13 per cent of children had high levels of "C-reactive protein", which is a robust indicator of heart problems, he said.
Source The Tribune dt 20-4-2005
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