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		<title>Obese Children May Need New Livers By Age 30</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t damaged now, it will be by their 30s&#8230;.
CNN news article here
&#8220;The American Liver Foundation and other experts estimate 2 to 5 percent of American children [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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&#8217;t damaged now, it will be by their 30s&#8230;.</p>
<p><a title="Obese Children Liver Damage Risk" href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/09/08/kids.fat.livers.ap/index.html" target="_blank">CNN news article here</a></p>
<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;</p>
<p>Apparently, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease causes cirrosis of the liver, which is then followed by liver failure and liver cancer.  Now, I&#8217;m no doctor, but I do know that they all lead to DEATH!!</p>
<p>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&#8217;re fat, and tell them to put down the cheese doodles and do something athletic before they&#8217;re subjected to a very short lifetime of pain, misery, and an endless search for organ donors.</p>
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