33% of the United States were overweight or obese.
What is 1950-60s?
100
The most obese and overweight state in America.
What is Mississippi?
100
The government began to redesigns students school lunches and promotes more physical education.
What is 2000-2010s?
100
A disease in which the body's blood glucose, or blood sugar, level is too high and the body does not use insulin properly; common in overweight/obese children.
What is Type II Diabetes?
200
A disease that is difficult to defeat due to the relapse rate in 5 years or less.
What is obesity?
200
There was an overall increase by 50% in the overweight and obesity statistics.
What is 1990s-2000s?
200
The only two states with greater than 35% obesity prevalence.
What is Mississippi and West Virginia?
200
The decade of a the greatest increase in women and men obesity rates.
What is 1980s-90s?
200
A condition in which the force of the blood against the artery walls is too high.
What is hypertension?
300
A measure of body weight relative to height and a tool that uses a formula to produce a score often used to determine if a person is underweight, at a normal weight, overweight, or obese.
What is BMI (body mass index)?
300
A 14% increase in obesity rates and a total 1.9 BMI increase in the adult population.
What is 1970s-1980s?
300
The lowest section/direction of the United States that has an obesity prevalence of less than 24.9%.
What is the West?
300
9.7% of the adult population had a BMI as high as or greater than 30.
What is 1950s-1960s?
300
A condition in which a waxy substance called plaque (plak) builds up inside the coronary arteries.
What is coronary heart disease?
400
A unit of energy in food.
What is a calorie?
400
Within the average U.S. population, 3 out of 5 Americans were considered overweight or obese.
What is 2000-2010?
400
The only state with 20% of students in grades 9-12 who achieve 1 hour or more of moderate-and/or vigorous-intensity physical activity daily.
What is Utah?
400
There was not one state reported obesity prevalence less than 10% and obesity prevalence was over 25% in 23 states.
What is 2000s-2010s?
400
A common disorder in which you have one or more pauses in breathing or shallow breaths while you sleep, commonly caused by excess fat stored around the neck.
What is sleep apnea?
500
The process that occurs in the body to turn the food one eats into chemical energy the body can use to maintain life.
What is metabolism?
500
Americas bad eating and exercise habits began to affect the U.S. children causing 4% of children under the age of 11 being considered obese and 6.1% of preteens and teens considered obese.
What is 1960s-1970s?
500
Number of states that have greater than 35% of students in grades 9-12 who drank regular soda/pop at least one time per day.
What are 7 states (7 of the south)?
500
The average U.S. adult male was eating 2,700 calories a day compared to the 2,200, and women were now eating 1,950 calories a day compared to the 1,500 in the 1960s.
What is 1990s-2000s?
500
The name for a group of risk factors that raises your risk for heart disease and other health problems, such as diabetes and stroke.