Alarming Stats!

America's Health

Read with caution, these statements can be frightening? Unfortunately, America's health is a reflection of the Standard American Diet or SAD so to say. These disturbing stats are a large reason why Performance Coaching is in business and in huge demand. The upswing to this horrible trend is that we can still do something about it! This will not be easy..........but worth it!!

Of roughly 300 million Americans:

• 50.3 percent of deaths in 2004 were attributed to heart disease and cancer, ½ of Americans die from two largely preventable diseases
• At least 58.8 million people in this country suffer from some form of heart disease
• According to the National Center for Health Statistics and the national health Survey, the typical US adult over the age of 18 has seven chronic health conditions........what? read that again
• More than 90 million Americans are presently living with chronic illnesses
• In 2004 approximately 80 million people had some form of cardiovascular disease
• 5 million Americans will have heart failure this year
• 5.5 million Americans will suffer from a stroke
• It gets really bad from here??????
• Cardiovascular disease (CVD) annual costs are 403 billion! How much money would you guess is dumped into honest & alternative prevention and education?
• Every 34 seconds a person in America dies from heart disease.
• More than 2,500 Americans die from heart disease each day
• Every 20 seconds, an American has a heart attack............ohhh man, think about that?
• From 1993 to 2003 the death rate from high blood pressure increased 29.3 percent, and the actual number of deaths rose 56.1 percent
• 72 million Americans have high blood pressure (American Heart Association)
• Since 1990, diabetes has risen by 61%
• Obesity is a serious issue costing the U.S. $117 billion a year and constitutes approximately 400,000 deaths each year
• 137 million Americans are overweight and 65 million are obese? Meaning 203 million Americans are overweight, that’s 68 percent! I've read higher than 68%, and current rate predictions has it nearly 80% by 2015?
• In 1991, obese adults made up less than 15 percent of the population in most U.S. states. By 2004, not a single state could claim that distinction, and in nine states more than 25 percent of the residents were obese.
• In 2000, the U.S. healthcare system spent $61 billion on the diagnosis, care and prevention of obesity
• Childhood obesity has doubled in the last 25 years, pathetic!
• Childhood diabetes has increased 10-fold since 1985, who is responsible for this?
• Stress accounts for 200 million lost working days in a year, or more
• Americans lose around $2.3 billion every year receiving and waiting for cancer treatment
• Cancer’s national cost of illness is $157 billion annually; Medicare alone paid $11 billion in 2000.
• 85 percent of cancers are associated with lifestyle factors including diet, smoking, and drinking alcohol
• In 2003 1.33 million Americans were diagnosed with cancer and nearly half that number died from the disease.
• In 2003 157,00 Americans died from lung cancer
• By age 60, 9 of every 10 Americans will have some form of arthritis
• Osteoporosis affects 28 million Americans, and contributing to an estimated 1.5 million bone fractures each year.
• Of the 2.2 million Americans that die each year 1.8 die from diet-related diseases
• Dr. Douglas Willen – “Today, six out of the top ten causes of death are diet related, and chronic degenerative diseases afflict over 120 million Americans.”
• In the U.S. non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are a $30 billion dollar industry—$17 for the drug and $13 for the treating of side effects.
• 40% of Americans are on prescription drugs, that’s 120 million people
• U.S. annual drug bill is a staggering $200 billion, oh my god!!! Think how many American children could attend college with that 1/2 of that bill?
• For the first time ever, in 2006, global spending on prescription drugs topped $600 billion (602 to be exact)
• 2004 U.S. pharmaceutical sales grew to $235.4 billion, roughly 45% of the world’s market
• In the space of two generations, we have invented 10 million new chemicals and unwittingly released thousand of them into the environment.
• 75 percent of Americans are fatigued
• Americans spend over $100 billion dollars a year on "pick-me-ups."
• More than 15 billion gallons of soda pop were sold in the U.S. in 2000. This works out to over one 12-ounce bottle per day for every man, woman and child.
• Teenage boys, on average, drink more than 575 cans of soda a year, while teenage girls drink more than 400 cans.
• In your lifetime you will consume one hundred tons of food, oh my!
• 1997, the U.S. spent $109 billion on fast food and that was roughly 10 years ago, last year, Americans spent about $ 270 billion on fast food, more than on higher education or personal computers or new cars, that’s more like 70 percent increase from 97’.
• Cigarette smoking causes a third to a half million deaths per year (over 1,000 per day) and is responsible for about 25 percent of the cancer deaths and 30–40 percent of the coronary heart disease.
• Somewhere between 25 to 50 percent of Americans suffer from a mental illness
• Around 70 percent of Americans spend no time engaging in physical exercise.
• Only 24 percent of Americans entertain some form of exercise 3 or more times per week
• And on and on and on and on...............get the picture?????