The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Toronto - Today's children face a future of heart disease, potentially as early as the end of their teen years, if parents and policy-makers don't urgently address the exploding problem of childhood obesity, a U.S. obesity expert warned Sunday. Dr. David Katz told delegates to the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress the research advances of the past couple of decades, which have improved the prognosis for people living with heart disease, are in danger of being lost. The threat is obesity and the fact that it triggers Type 2 diabetes. Both are risk factors for cardiovascular disease. "Children growing up in the U.S. and soon Canada are the first cohort in modern memory looking at a shorter life expectancy than their parents because of epidemic obesity and diabetes," said Katz, director of medical studies in public health at Yale University's school of medicine. Ottawa - The Conservative establishment, brushing aside objections from dissidents in its own ranks, has set the party on track toward a December ratification vote on a proposed merger with the Canadian Alliance. Under the Oct. 16 deal, members of both parties must approve the merger by December. That would be followed early in the new year by a leadership race and founding convention for the newly united political right.
