Heart Disease Starts in Childhood

DESCRIPTION: By age 10, nearly all kids have fatty streaks in their arteries This is the first sign of atherosclerosis, the leading cause of death in the United States. So the question for most of us is not whether we should eat healthy to prevent heart disease, but whether we want to reverse the heart disease we may already have.

Given the importance of this message, I encourage folks to please share this video with those in your circles. I know it's scary, but hope it's empowering at the same time. The bottom line is that we have tremendous control over our medical destinies.

Heart disease is a choice.

Image Credit: Rrrrred and Kevin Burkett via Flickr, and Nephron via Wikimedia.

[Kishoreuvoyt]

Let's take action right away and reverse heart disease!

[HappyHealthyVegan]

great presentation! i had no idea that our bad diets left their mark while we're so young.

[AxCYeR]

This topic is so very important, certainly one of your videos that every-fucking-body should see.
I mean, the problem was already there 60 years ago ... but now it's 2015, and my generation is stupid, living for entertainment and fun only, eating meat and junk food like crazy ... where will this lead us to? Huge problems, that's for sure. An insane amount of death, suffering and sadness. People need to wake up ffs ...

[ColdCutz]

I just tallied up my score based on my state last year before I went plant-based. I got a 17. Off the charts, and I was 31 at the time. Needless to say I've been healing since then.

[supkillsbats]

great to know that the debate about what diet to eat is finally over!!

[ThePANDA]

Amazing video. Why more people aren't taking their diet seriously is beyond me. Great job, as always.

[abcdeedcba]

This stuff is not an exaggeration either. I am only 34 and at 31 I was diagnosed with a 4.2 cm ascending aortic aneurysm. It was only found after I almost died of multiple pulmonary embolisms. I just hope that people are taking this seriously. It is the only thing that my whole food plant-based vegan diet can not reverse.

[eclipsogaming]

Thank you sir, this educates me and motivates  me to eat healthier.

[michellebell]

Thank you, changed my whole families diet to an organic raw diet! I am very lucky that I found this out while my husband and I are in our yearly twenties and while are kids are four and two!

[vegannursepractitioner]

There are some states, I work in one of them, where we the medical community are required to start drawing blood for a Cholesterol levels starting at age 2 due to the high fat diet fed routinely to children, the Standard American Diet.
In America, 2/3 of Americans are either Overweight or OBESE, the high fat, saturated fat, and dairy (bovine milk products) intake has induced an Alarming increase in Diabetes Type 2 and Type 1.
Right now in America, the average lifespan of a child being born today, is shorter than their Grandparents.
With all the science and knowledge so very available to Americans, in an act of narcissistic stubbornness, 95% of Americans still force their young children to eat meat/dairy/eggs thus causing their children a much higher 'all cause mortality' rate, a life of pain, chronic disease, and a decreased quality of life. We have just got to start loving our children more than that....

[TheAnnaFisher]

All schools should serve plant based options daily, it's the least we can do for our children and our budget.

[thinkingman]

I would like to see how Dr. Greger responds to that book. I am familiar with his work so it would be interesting to see Dr. G's take on it.

[RichardMin]

I showed this to my friends with kids.. all my friends! Some do and most don't. Unfortunately. But I passed it around, so... oh well 😅

[thinkingman]

That is part of the problem. While cholesterol provides the substrate for heart disease more recent publications seem to be concentrating on systemic chronic inflammation as a major factor. No doubt obesity is a factor too. This is why I want Dr. G to comment or produce a video on the cholesterol skeptics and Swiss/French Paradox. Ironically the French also smoke more than people in the US and have on average higher cholesterol but significantly less heart disease.

[chargerfish]

My mom is 55 and was overweight and smoked for many years, she had an angiogram done just to check because of concern and surprisingly it showed no narrowed arteries. I am currently switching to a wfpbd at the age of 28.

[tennisboy]

Dr. Gregor, could you do a video on male pattern baldness to see if there's any correlation between it and diet? treatments? cures? Love the vids!!!!

[thinkingman]

I wish he would address the Swiss/French Paradox where they have very high cholesterol rates but half the heart disease.

[Ramiromasters]

Its vegetable oil that is the problem.
Vegetable oil is the one used in Fast Food restaurants, is the cheap one at the store, and is in virtually every mass produced fried and baked product. Vegetable oil was invented by Proctor & Gamble aka Crisco.

[lizziebarrett]

"But talk cholesterol and ignore inflammatory sugar, or hydroginated fats, no." He's not, he hits on all these other topics in other videos. Please watch more videos : ))

[cassieroser]

Thank you so much for this video! I will share and keep encouraging my loved ones To please consider a plant based diet for life- our health is in our hands and jn our backyard gardens and on our plates