Health Risk Statistics

The United States is facing  facing two major epidemics.

1.The epidemic of obesity
2.The epidemic of inactivity

Statistics

• Fifty-eight million Americans are seriously overweight and in poor physical condition. 
  
  
• One in three adults in this country is considered obese.
  
  

• It is estimated that over half of all adults in the United States is at least somewhat overweight.
   
  

• In 1998 alone, 300,000 deaths resulted from overweight-related diseases.
  
  

• The prevalence of obesity grew a shocking 40% between 1980 and 1990.
  
  

• Obesity -- which is medically defined as being 20% above your healthy body weight -- is a dangerous condition.