Obese Children May Need New Livers By Age 30

In another unsurprising bit of news about the obesity epidemic in America, now overweight children will need to have their livers replaced because of being overweight.  If their livers aren’t damaged now, it will be by their 30s….

CNN news article here

“The American Liver Foundation and other experts estimate 2 to 5 percent of American children over age 5, nearly all of them obese or overweight, have the condition, called nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.”

Apparently, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease causes cirrosis of the liver, which is then followed by liver failure and liver cancer.  Now, I’m no doctor, but I do know that they all lead to DEATH!!

Parents, please tell your kids to get off the couch and go outside for a bike ride or a pick-up football game because nonalcoholic fatty liver disease CAN be cured through weightloss.  Stop it with the denial.  Look at your kid, admit to yourself they’re fat, and tell them to put down the cheese doodles and do something athletic before they’re subjected to a very short lifetime of pain, misery, and an endless search for organ donors.