Shocking Facts...

• In the United States, it is estimated that 93 million Americans are obese.
• More than 9 million adolescents (children and teens 6 to 19 years old) are considered overweight. 
• The cost of obesity in the United States in 2000 was more than $117 billion.
• Almost 112,000 annual deaths are attributable to obesity.
• In the United States, 40 percent of adults do not participate in any leisure-time physical activity.
• Treating an obese individual cost $1,244 more in 2002 than treating a healthy-weight person did.
• Children who are obese at a young age are predisposed to obesity and morbid obesity in adulthood.
• More than 40 percent of children watch 2 or more hours of television each day.

Read more on the OAC website:

http://www.obesityaction.org/educationaltools/factsandstats.php