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Healthy Lifestyles

What portion of U.S. adults have all 4 characteristics of a healthy lifestyle, including (1) a healthy diet, (2) a normal body fat percentage, (3) sufficient physical activity, and (4) not smoking?

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A study of U.S. adults published in 2016 by Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that 38% of U.S. adults “consumed a healthy diet,” 10% “had a normal body fat percentage” (5-20% for men and 8-30% for women), 46% “were sufficiently active,” and 72% “did not smoke.” In combination, “only 2.7% of all adults had all 4 healthy lifestyle characteristics.” This study was based on data from 2003-2006 because these datasets provided the only “publically available objectively measured physical activity data (i.e., accelerometry data).”




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