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Canadian Kids Overweight
- Percentage of overweight boys in 1981: 15
- In 1996: 35.4
- Percentage of overweight girls in 1981: 15
- In 1996: 29.2
- Increase in the prevalence of childhood obesity over the same period: fivefold
- Number of Canadian children aged 2 to 11 who were overweight in 1998/99: one-third
- Percentage of children aged 2 to 11 living in families with incomes below the low-income cut-off (LICO) who were obese: 25
- Percentage of children in families above the LICO who were obese: 16
- Amount of time the average Canadian child sits in front of the tube each week: 15.5 hours
- Obesity risk increase for every hour per day of TV viewing: 12 percent
- Obesity risk decrease for every hour per day of moderate to vigorous activity: 10 percent
- Number of food ads US and British children are exposed to per hour of television viewing: about 10
- Percentage of all schools in Canada that had formal physical education classes in 2001: 33
- Percentage that offer quality daily phys. ed programs: less than 4
- Percentage of their waking time US kids spend being inactive: 75
- Number of minutes per day US kids spend in vigorous physical activity: 12
- Number of steps the average person takes each day: between 3,000 and 5,000
- Number of daily steps health advocates want people to aim for: 10,000
- Percentage of 5- to 12-year-old girls who are physically active: 30; of boys, 50 percent
- Percentage of people with less than a high school diploma who are physically active: 36
- Of university and college graduates: 49 percent
- Percentage of youth (aged 12 to 19) living in higher income families who are likely to be physically active: 56; other income levels, between 33 and 43
- Standard serving of Coca-Cola in the 1950s: one 6 oz bottle; in 2003: one 20 oz bottle
- Size of the Double Gulp at 7-Eleven stores: 64 oz
- Increased risk of developing obesity in middle-school children for every additional daily serving of sugar-sweetened soft drinks: 60 percent
- Number of calories in a hamburger Happy Meal (hamburger, fries and cola): 582
- Number of grams of fat in the same meal: 18.9
- Percentage of children diagnosed with type 2 diabetes who are obese: 85
- Reduced risk of progression to diabetes by improving lifestyle: 58 percent over 4 years
- Percentage of cases of type 2 diabetes that could potentially be avoided through changing lifestyle factors: up to 90 percent
- Of coronary heart disease: up to 80 percent
- Of cancers: 33 percent
- Number of premature deaths in Canada every year resulting from preventable diet- and inactivity-related diseases: 20,000 to 47,000
- Amount that new food labeling rules are predicted to lower direct and indirect costs of diet-related disease over the next 20 years: $5 billion
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