High cholesterol has also been linked to diabetes and high blood pressure. The main risk associated with high cholesterol is coronary heart disease. Blood cholesterol has a lot to do with the chances of getting heart disease. If cholesterol is too high, it builds up in the walls of your arteries. Over time, this build-up (called plaque) causes hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis). Atherosclerosis causes arteries to become narrowed, slowing blood flow to the heart muscle. Reduced blood flow to the heart can result in angina (chest pain) or in a heart attack in cases when blood vessel is blocked completely.[Nat12]. There is substantial evidence that the atherosclerotic process leading to Coronary Heart Disease CHD begins in childhood."[TAr].
Several factors play an important role in high cholesterol in high cholesterol levels, such as a diet rich in fat, especially saturated or trans-fat caused by poor nutrition. Children are constantly tempted in different ways every day by TV commercials and technology as today's children spend far too much time watching TV and or playing video games. The result is a lack of physical activity combine that with inherited traits like metabolic problems and "Familial Hypercholesterolemia FH an inherited condition in which the LDL receptors are absent or abnormal, the uptake of cholesterol by tissue cells is blocked, and the total concentration of cholesterol (and LDLs) in the blood is enormously elevated (e.g., 680 mg of cholesterol per 100 ml of blood). Affected individuals develop atherosclerosis at an early age, heart attacks begin in the third or fourth decade, and most die by age 60 from coronary artery disease."[Ela10]. Without physical activists life's a constant production of cholesterol plaque affixed to the walls of the heart which has been identified in children as young as 5 years old, hence the importance of combating this disease at an early age in children before reaching another disease triggered either metabolic or heart nature.
