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Here is a list of top 10 health facts you may not know:
- In 2005, there were 108,694 unintentional deaths, half of which
were caused by motor vehicle accidents.
- The United States has now passed the 300 million population
mark. In 1915, the population reached 100 million and in 1967
the 200 millionth American was a baby named Robert Woo.
- In a recent study it has been estimated that 17-percent of children
and adolescents, from 2 - 19 years of age are overweight.
- In 2004, there were 4.1 million births in the United States,
which is 1-percent greater than in 2003.
- In 2002, there were 30.8 million people who had at one time
been diagnosed with asthma. Of this number 21.9 million had received
a lifetime diagnosis of asthma.
- In 1999, the rate for circumcision for all male babies in the
U. S. was 65.3 percent. From 1980 to 1999, the rate of circumcision
for the western part of the U. S. has dropped from 62 to 37-percent.
- A 1997 survey shows that over 50-percent of the adult population
is overweight and that 20-percent is obese. Hypertension, heart
disease and diabetes are major health risk for those who are overweight
and obese.
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