Physical Activity

Get recommended level: 46.4 percent

No leisure-time/physical activity: 27.8 percent

Fruits and Vegetables

Eat 2 or fewer servings a day: 40.8 percent

Eat 5 or more servings a day: 23.7 percent

Obesity

Adults overweight or obese: 62.4 percent

High school students overweight or at risk: 29 percent

Low-income children 2-5 overweight or at risk: 15.2 percent

Annual Medical Expenditures Attributable to Adult Obesity

Percent of population: 6.1 percent

Dollars spent (millions): $5340

Percent of Medicare population: 6.8 percent

Medicare dollars spent (millions): $1209

Percent of Medicaid population: 11.8 percent

Medicaid dollars spent (millions): $1177

Populations significantly above the national median

Populations Above the National Median - Overweight

African Americans

Women

Hispanics

Low Income

Other

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.