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Healthy America:
Wellness Where We Live,
Work and Learn
Call to Action:
An Agenda for
America's Governors
Healthy America:WellnessWhere We Live,Work and Learn
Call to Action: An Agenda for America's Governors
Across the nation, the health of Americans is at serious risk due to unhealthy lifestyles, physical inactivity, and poor
nutrition.We live in a culture where people are not physically active on a regular basis and increasingly spend time
sitting in front of a TV or computer screen.i,ii Obesity is one of the nation's fastest-rising health problems—increasing
74 percent between 1991 and 2001, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).iii About 129 million adults in the United States are overweight; of these more than 60 million are obese and
9 million are severely obese.The number of overweight children between the ages of 6 and 19 has tripled since 1980,
and 9 million kids over the age of 6 are currently obese.iv,v
This problem......

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