Health Statistics 2019
We spend more per person on healthcare than any other developed nation, yet our health continues to decline.
- 90% of chronic disease is driven by our behavior and environment (not our genes!)
- Genes account for 10% of human disease https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/exposome/
- https://chriskresser.com/why-your-genes-arent-your-destiny/
- Top 5 health behaviors (identified by the Centers for Disease Control):
- maintaining a healthy weight (healthy diet)
- not smoking
- not drinking excessively
- getting enough exercise
- getting enough sleep
- From 1993 to 2017, the number of people in the world with diabetes increased 12-fold from 35 million to 450 million and is expected to rise to 690 million by 2045. (21)
- Over 84 million American adults have prediabetes, characterized by slightly elevated blood glucose levels (4)
- $327 billion - The direct and indirect costs of type 2 diabetes in 2017
- $340 billion+ = yearly cost of obesity
- 7 out of 10 – number of deaths due to chronic disease each year
- Add 14 years by successfully implementing five healthy habits:
- eating a healthy diet
- exercising regularly
- maintaining a healthy body weight
- moderate alcohol intake
- not smoking
- a person’s life expectancy at age 67 decreases 1.8 years for each additional chronic disease they have
- 6 in 10 U.S. adults have one chronic disease
- 4 in 10 U.S. adults having two or more (3)
Health Coaching Stats:
As of June 2019, there are over 50,000 books on diet and over 60,000 books on exercise on Amazon.com, yet obesity in U.S. adults has climbed from 31 percent to 40 percent from 1999 to 2016 (1) and the percentage of the U.S. population with diabetes nearly doubled from 4 percent to 7.4 percent from 1999 to 2015. (2) If information was all it took to reverse chronic disease, we wouldn’t see these trends.