Hugging and Chalking

This blog is about obesity and the inanity/insanity it spawns, the encroaching lawsuits and growing diet industry. Obesity is a matter of genes and personal responsibility. You can have an endocrine problem, or you can have a balance problem (too many calories and too little exercise). It’s not where you eat, but how much you eat; it’s not McDonald’s fault, or Mama’s fault, or Washington’s fault if your body is too fat or too thin. Rosabelle.

Thursday, April 28, 2005

Few Americans have a healthy lifestyle

Jennifer Corbett Dooren writes in the April 26 Wall Street Journal that only 3% of Americans lead a healthy lifestyle. The study appears in the Archives of Internal Medicine, abstract here. What does a healthy lifestyle involve?

1) Not smoking.
2) Regular exercise.
3) Maintaining a healthy weight.
4) Eating 5+ fruits and vegetables per day.

Pretty simple, innit?

posted by Rosabelle 6:21 PM  

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