• According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) State Indicator Report on Physical Activity: 2010 Behavioral Indicators, only 64.5% of adults and 17.1% of children in grades 9 through 12 are physically active.
• Tobacco use is responsible for one in five deaths in the U.S. (about 443,000 deaths each year. Approximately 49,000 of these deaths result from secondhand smoke exposure.
• Cancer in the U.S. kills more than half a million people each year.
• The CDC estimates that there are 19 million new sexually transmitted infections every year in the U.S.
• More than 616,000 people die of heart disease in the U.S. each year – amounting to about 25% of total U.S. deaths. In addition, heart disease is a leading cause of disability in the U.S.
• Infectious diseases have caused approximately 170,000 annual deaths in the U.S. since 2000.
• Influenza kills around 30,000 Americans annually, and epidemiologists agree that it is not a question of whether, but when, the next killer pandemic will occur.
