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Teens need the benefits of weight training, now more than ever.

As adults, we all know by now that exercise and proper nutrition are good for you, although taking that fact and acting upon it seems to be easier said than done for many. Forty percent of Americans don't exercise at all. But if you think adults have problems, consider the news reports, obesity is also causing heart problems among the young. Yes, the obesity epidemic sweeping the U.S. is yielding an early and troubling condition in young people: enlarged hearts. The report was presented recently by Thomas R. Kimball, a researcher at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, at the annual scientific meeting of the American College of Cardiology. A study of several hundred young women, average age 20, found that 25% of them had abnormally large hearts, a sure predictor of future heart problems. Nearly all of the study subjects affected with the condition were obese. This is startling news. You can assume if it is happening to young women, it is happening to young men also, bad news for all of them, particularly if they follow unhealthy diets and don't exercise.