the following percentages of U.S. adults achieved any of four basic behavioral characteristics that researchers say would constitute a “healthy lifestyle”:
- 71.5%
did not smoke
- 37.9%
ate a healthy diet
- 9.6%
had a normal body fat percentage
- 46.5%
were sufficiently active
- Only
2.7% of all adults had all four healthy lifestyle characteristics,
while16% had three, 36.8% had two, 33.5% had one, and 11.1% had none
Source: "Healthy Lifestyle Characteristics and Their
Joint Association With Cardiovascular Disease Biomarkers in US Adults,"
Mayo Clinic Proceedings, March 21, 2016, http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(16)00043-4/fulltext
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