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These stats are for the year 2000 and now that 2007 is here you can almost triple these percentages.

  • Obesity. 34% of U.S. adults are overweight and 31% are obese. This can lead to heart attacks, strokes, Diabetes, back problems, Arthritis to mention a few.
  • Poor diet (including Anorexics/Bulimics) and not enough physical activity caused 400,000 deaths in the year 2000 (16% deaths.)
  • Tobacco products, 435,000 (18%) can cause heart attacks, strokes, lung cancer and various other cancers.
  • Alcohol causes liver disease, lack of proper diet (85,000 deaths 3.5%)
  • Microbial agents (75,000 deaths)
  • Toxic agents (55,000 deaths)
  • Car accidents (43,000 deaths)
  • Firearms (29,000 deaths)
  • Sexual diseases (20,000 deaths)
  • Illegal drug use (17,000)
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  1. Cardiovascular diseases
  2. Respiratory infections
  3. Diarrheal diseases
  4. Mental health disorders
  5. Diabetes
  6. HIV/AIDS
  7. Stroke
  8. Cancer
  9. Tuberculosis
  10. malaria
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