Get recommended level: 45.2 percent
No leisure-time/physical activity: 23 percent
Eat 2 or fewer servings a day: 38.9 percent
Eat 5 or more servings a day: 21.3 percent
Adults overweight or obese: 63.8 percent
High school students overweight or at risk: 29 percent
Low-income children 2-5 overweight or at risk: N/A
Percent of population: 5.1 percent
Dollars spent (millions): $207
Percent of Medicare population: 9.8 percent
Medicare dollars spent (millions): $57
Percent of Medicaid population: 13.8 percent
Medicaid dollars spent (millions): $66
African Americans
Women
Low Income
Other
Seniors
NOTE: N/A = Data not available
Sources
Physical Activity, Fruits and Vegetables, Obesity: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey Data. Atlanta, Georgia: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005.
Annual Medical Expenditures Attributable to Adult Obesity, Populations Above the National Median - Overweight: Finkelstein et al. “National Medical Spending Attributable to Overweight and Obesity: How Much and Who’s Paying?” Health Affairs,Web exclusive, May 2003.