Here's a question for you.

What's the best way to live a longer, healthier life?

Diet, exercise, both eating healthy while doing jumping jacks?

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger,

and I'm here to help you answer that question.

We have tremendous power over our health destiny

and longevity.

The vast majority of premature death and disability

is preventable with a healthy enough diet and lifestyle.

And I'm here to bring you the latest peer-reviewed research

to give you the tools to put it into practice.

On today's show, we bring you some peer-reviewed research

on children's health.

And our first story is eye-opening.

Did you know that by age 10, nearly all kids

raised on the standard American diet

already have fatty streaks in their arteries?

This is the first sign of atherosclerosis

the leading cause of death in the United States.

So the question for most of us is not whether we should eat

healthy to prevent heart disease,

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