A new study suggests people who are overweight or obese early in life may not be more likely to have heart disease or stroke as adults....Reuters.com: "However, the study's authors point out that the population data used in their analysis were collected many years ago, and more precise investigations in today's children are necessary to fully answer to the question of whether childhood obesity or being overweight increases the risk of future cardiovascular disease risk.The prevalence of obesity has tripled in most of the developed world during the past 20 years, Dr. Debbie A. Lawlor of the University of Bristol in the UK and colleagues note, raising fears of a future epidemic of heart disease. But studies investigating whether childhood overweight is related to later heart disease risk have not uniformly supported this concern...."