Scary Facts about Health in America Today
Americans have an extremely high risk of degenerative disease. These statistics are quite sobering:
- Diabetes is the fastest growing concern in healthcare today.
- 20+ million will have diabetes in their lifetime.
- 6+ million are unaware they have diabetes.
- 57+ million are pre-diabetic (without lifestyle change most become diabetic within 10 years).
- 80% of diabetics die a cardiac death.
- One of every three kids will have diabetes in their lifetime (50% by age 20).
- Fourteen percent of kids age 5 and under are obese, according to the CDC.
- The 4th leading cause of death is appropriately prescribed pharmaceuticals.
- For every dollar we spend on pharmaceuticals we spend another dollar to treat its side effects.
- 47 million are uninsured, 9 million of those are kids who will not receive treatment.
