A recent article in The New England Journal of Medicine (Dec. 5) indicates that overweight children are likely to have a greater increase in heart disease as adults based on long-term study from Denmark on 276,000 children. Projecting this data forward in American children indicates a potential increase in the levels of heart disease in Americans by some 16 percent by 2035, which will amount to more than 100,000 cases. Unfortunately, the ongoing study that I have been doing with pediatric obese children in Las Vegas demonstrates that these children are highly inflamed as indicated by their elevated AA:EPA ratios. This would suggest that the extent of the impact of the current levels of pediatric obesity on future American cardiovascular disease rates may be grossly underestimated. This is why high-dose fish oil may be exactly the “drug” to circumvent this growing epidemic. Weight loss is difficult in today’s dietary environment, but the reduction of inflammation is not.