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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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