DO NOT Become a Statistic
Americans ARE NOT VERY HEALTHY:
- 1500 of us die from cancer every day.
- 1 in 3 women and 1 in 2 men will have cancer in his or her lifetime.
- 1 in 8 American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer.
- Heart disease kills more women then breast cancer.
- 1.1 million Americans have a heart attack every year.
- 500,000 heart attack victims in America die each year.
- 23% of Americans have hypertension.
- Americans spend $330 billion per year on heart disease.
- 64% of U.S. adults are overweight or obese.
- Diabetes will increase by 165% over the next 50 years, with 29 million Americans diagnosed.
- 33% of Americans suffer from arthritis.
- Cancer kills more children than any other disease.
- By age 3, children have fatty deposits in their arteries.
- By age 12, 70% have developed beginning stages of hardening of the arteries.
- 1 in 4 children is obese.
- Obesity has doubled in the last 20 years.
- Nearly 50% of obese adolescents remain obese as adults.
- In the last 20 years, Type 2 diabetes has increased 10-fold.
- Over 8 million children have asthma, up 232% in the last 40 years.
- 7% of school age children are diagnosed with ADHD.
- Less than 7% of children and adolescents consume the recommended 2 servings of fruit and 3 servings of vegetables per day.