The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has put forth a dismal picture of today's teenagers in regard to their cardiovascular health.

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey's findings have revealed that as the young brigade opts for leniency in terms they are at great risk to be diagnosed with heart related problem.

Study author, Donald Lloyd-Jones said they enrolled 5,450 children, who were between 12 and 19 years old and none of them fulfilled ideal diet criteria made by the American Heart Association.

Jones, who is also Chief of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, noticed diet to be the first thing that was being not followed by younger lot.

The survey that would be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Heart Association would put forth the fact that teenagers do not follow any of the seven criteria of the American Heart Association that has been made for healthy heart.

Though 16.4% of boys and 11.3% of the girls from 5,450 children were found to be following other six criteria of the AMA, none of them met the required standards for diet.

Those seven standards are diet, smoking, exercise, weight, cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar. Ignorance to maintain weight gives birth to obesity which gives birth to numerous health problems and most compromised part is heart.

Jones said, "In this country, essentially all of us are born with ideal cardiovascular health, but we lose it very quickly". He further affirmed rise in cholesterol and blood sugar level is common phenomenon when reaches at his puberty level. But that could be controlled by opting seven benchmarks given by the AMA.

Health experts welcomed the findings. Veronique Roger, who is the Head of health-sciences research at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, said these finding would help them to accomplish AMA goal, which is top get 205 of American youth to follow all its seven benchmarks.