How Important is Your Health?
Only 8% of today’s patients engage in all five healthy behaviors — maintaining a healthy weight, eating fruits and vegetables, drinking alcohol in moderation, exercising, and not smoking — compared with 15% in 1988, Dana E. King, M.D., of the Medical University of South Carolina, and colleagues reported online in the American Journal of Medicine. -Commercial Fitness Today
MY COMMENT: Not very good news- here is the breakdown.
The researchers found that over the last 18 years, the percentage of adults ages 40 to 74 with a BMI greater than 30 has increased from 28% to 36% (P<0.05).
The proportion who engage in physical activity 12 times a month or more has decreased from 53% to 43% (P<0.05).
Smoking rates have not changed, remaining constant at about 26.5%.
The proportion who eat five or more fruits and vegetables a day has decreased from 42% to 26% (P<0.05).
And moderate alcohol use has increased from 40% to 51% (P<0.05
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