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Health Statistics

Childhood Obesity
- The number of obese children has tripled since 1980
- Overweight children have a 70% chance of becoming overweight or obese as adults
- Only the state of Illinois has a statewide requirement for daily physical education even though experts say inactivity in children is directly linked to obesity
- 60% of obese children 5-10 years old already have 1 cardiovascular risk factor
- Obesity in children can lead to type 2 diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnea and other conditions

Violence and Video Games
- 74% of families with school-age children own video game equipment
- A review in 2001 found 89% of video games contained some type of violence
- Parents are less likely to supervise children game playing than television viewing
- One study showed an increase in violence of 73% for children who played video games versus those that did not
- Videogame sales topped a record 7.3 billion in 2004 with the top 2 games being rated M for Mature Content & Violence

Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- The most common mental disorders in America are anxiety related
- Woman are twice as likely to have GAD than men
- 6.8 million Americans (3.1% of population) have GAD
- 43% of Americans take mood altering prescriptions regularly
- The median age of GAD onset is 31 years old

Diabetes
- The number of adults in America diagnosed with diabetes is around 23.6 million, or 8%
- 65% of diabetics die of heart disease or stroke related illnesses
- In 2007, $174 billion was spent on diabetes health care in America
- People with diabetes are usually on medications to control cholesterol and blood pressure as well
- Many people with type 2 diabetes can control it without insulin just by eating healthy food, exercising and losing weight

Colon Cancer
- 108,070 new cases of colon cancer in America in 2008 (estimated)
- 49,960 deaths from colon/rectal cancer in 2008 (estimated)
- The median age of diagnosis of colon cancer is 71-75 years old
- 1 in 19...