🫀Can parents save their kids from ever getting heart disease? | AAP

Follow pediatrician Hailey Nelson’s four tips to help your kid grow up to live a long, healthy life. The problems that eventually lead to the biggest cause of death for adults - heart disease - can start in childhood. Keeping your child’s heart healthy for the long haul can be simple if you follow this straightforward advice from the American Academy of Pediatrics. For kids - follow a heart-healthy diet; be active 30 to 60 minutes each day; get regular checkups, which include cholesterol screening for all children starting around age 9 and sometimes cholesterol screening for children as young as 2 if there are risk factors; and for parents - never smoke or vape.
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