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Human Health Statistics
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This nutrient helps promote healthy heart function, muscle development, and skeletal health, among other things. Pass me a banana!
What is potassium?
100
Doctors and nutritionist recommend limiting consumption of this to 9 teaspoons a day for men and 6 teaspoons a day for women. The average American consumes 19.5 teaspoons or more each day.
What is sugar?
100
This form of energy is often counted and reduced by those who are trying to lose weight. The World Health Organization recommends about 2,000 daily for a healthy, active adult.
What are calories?
100
The American Samoa was ranked the most obese population in the world in 2017; this country was 18th.
What is the United States?
100
Thought to be a culprit of a wider waistline, this type of food doesn't make you heavy (even though the name would suggest otherwise). Some delicious examples include nuts, avocado, and salmon.
What are fats?
200
This nutrient is an important component of hemoglobin, the substance in red blood cells that carries oxygen throughout your body. While meat is a popular source, other excellent sources of this nutrient include potatoes, legumes, tomatoes, and leafy greens (and many more).
What is iron?
200
Too much of a good thing can be bad, but it's hard to eliminate some items (such as ice cream, potato chips, and fast food) entirely. Instead, engaging in this can help you maintain your health.
What is moderation?
200
This diet has gained a lot of popularity in recent years and is also known as the "meat & potatoes" diet or the "caveman diet." It eliminates bread, sugar, and processed foods, and encourages the consumption of veggies, fruit, and healthy meats.
What is paleo or the Paleolithic diet?
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Thicker waistlines means thinner wallets—this cost the American population more than $147 billion in 2008.
What are annual medical costs?
200
Put down that donut, but don't cut out these! They are essential for maintaining health, and give you energy throughout the day. Try an apple, sweet potato, or quinoa, for example.
What are carbs?
300
This substance helps digestion move smoothly and slows the rate at which sugar is absorbed into the blood stream. Eat lots o' veggies to get your fill!
What is fiber?
300
Studies have found that increased consumption of this leads to increased risk of bone disease, osteoporosis, and calcium deficiencies—even though many popular ads incorrectly tell us otherwise.
What are dairy products?
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Unlike vegetarian, this lifestyle also eliminates eggs, dairy, and all animal products. Those who follow it tend to have lower rates of heart disease, cholesterol, osteoporosis, diabetes, and many other ailments.
What is vegan?
300
With 21.3% of the population in the danger zone, Colorado is the U.S. state with the lowest rate of obesity. With a 35.9% obesity rate, this state ranked the highest.
What is Arkansas?
300
While limiting refined breads is never a bad idea, living this lifestyle is unnecessary unless you suffer from an allergy or celiac's disease.
What is gluten-free?
400
Also known as ascorbic acid, this powerful antioxidant helps the body form and maintain connective tissue, including bones, blood vessels, and skin.
What is Vitamin C?
400
After reviewing evidence from epidemiological studies that took place around the world and over the course of decades, the World Health Organization classified this as a Group 1 carcinogen—putting it in the same group as tobacco.
What is processed meat?
400
Named after the region whose culture it reflects, a recent study put this diet—rich in veggies, fruits, healthy oils, and fish, while containing small amounts of bread, sugar, and the occasional red meat—as the most healthy diet in the world.
What is the Mediterranean diet?
400
Obesity increases the rate of strokes, diabetes, kidney disease, fatty liver, cancer, and this ailment that now kills 1 out of 4 Americans.
What is heart disease?
400
While it can serve as a general guideline to weight loss progress, the number on this can be misleading. Water weight, muscle mass development, and other normal and healthy reasons could be a factor to the number going up.
What is a scale?
500
Humans produce this vitamin—which helps maintain nerve and blood cell health—in the intestine, but unfortunately it's too far down the digestive system for us to be able to absorb what we make. Fear not, it can be found in healthy meats and organic vegetables.
What is B12?
500
While many worry vegetarians suffer from a deficiency of this, it's actually much more likely that non-vegetarians will get too much. Too much of this can be just as harmful as a deficiency.
What is protein?
500
The average American woman spends this number of years on a diet—maybe it's no coincidence the magazine titled the same often features articles on healthy living.
What is seventeen?
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Health professionals recommend this be around 18.5 to 24.9 normally; 25 to 29.5 is overweight, 30 to 39.9 is obese, and 40 or higher is morbidly obese.
What is Body Mass Index (BMI)?
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While it would be simple and easy, getting healthy and losing weight is much more complex than this easy "equation."
What is calories in versus calories out?
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