Scary Weight and Lifestyle Statistics
American lifestyle and health by the numbers...
133.6 million U.S. adults are overweight or obese. [1]
If the average American crammed their annual TV-watching into one session, it would take two months of non-stop TV-watching. [11]
From 1960 to 2004, America doubled its overweight and obese population. [1]
Each American, on average, consumed 50 gallons of soft drinks in 2004. [2]
Heart Disease Killed 631,636 Americans in 2006. [3]
As of 2007, 25.1 million living Americans had been diagnosed with heart disease. [4]
39.5% of adults in the United States engage in no leisure-time physical activity. [5]
The average American would add $11,520 in annual income if they worked for minimum wage ($8) instead of watching TV. [11]
In 2006, heart disease (631,636), cancer (559,888), and stroke (137,119) were the leading causes of death in American. Diabetes ranked sixth (72,449). [6]
8% of Americans eat at a McDonald's each day. In 2003, they sold 75 hamburgers per second of every minute, of every hour, of every day of the year. [7]
The average American consumed 42.4 lbs of high fructose corn syrup in 2005. [8] Some studies report current annual consumption to be closer to 70 lbs annually. [9]
16,640 bariatric surgeries (gastric bypass, gastric banding, etc.) were performed in 1998. In 2004, 140,640 weight-loss surgeries were performed...an increase of 768%. [10]
Number of minutes per week an average child spends watching television: 1,680. Number of minutes per week parents spend in meaningful conversation with their children: 3.5. [11]
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[1] Weight-control Information Network-http://win.niddk.nih.gov/statistics/#preval
[2] Academy of General Dentistry-http://www.agd.org/public/oralhealth/Default.asp?IssID=315&Topic=N&ArtID=1276
[3] National Vital Statistics Reports-http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr57/nvsr57/nvsr57_14.pdf
[4] Summar Health Statistics for U.S. Adults: Naitonal Health Interview Survey, 2007, Tables 1, 2
[5] Center for Disease Control and Prevention-http://cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/exercise.htm
[6] Center of Disease Control and Prevention-http://cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm
[7] Potential Effects of the Next 100 Billion Hamburgers Sold by McDonald's, by Elsa H. Spencer, PhD, Erica Frank, MD, MPH, Nichole F. McIntosh, MD, MPH
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2606654/mcdonalds-burgers
[8] U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service-http://ww.corn/org/percaphfcs.htm
[9] Mariniello, J. Martin (2007-11-28). "Weight Loss --- Revealing The Hidden Secrets". Obesity Factors In Current Society.
[10] Wichita Busines Journal-http://wichita.bizjournals.com/wichita/stories/2005/01/10/focus2.html
[11] California State University, Northridge, Norman Herr, PhD. Professor of Science Education-http://www.cusn.edu/science/health/docs/tv&health.html
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