Diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure that people thought only a few years ago were common only among adults are now found to be crippling even the lives of some children. For the study researchers compared fat cell composition and biology in lean and obese children and adolescents. Obese kids are more vulnerable to these diseases as researchers have found that when children become obese beginning as early as age six there was an increase in the number of adipose cells (fat cells). (Read: 3 risk factors most highly correlated with child obesity identified) These were larger in
