A recent study sought out to find what percentage of Americans engage in four behaviors that are considered key to a healthy lifestyle. If you had to guess, what percentage do you think received passing grades in all four categories?
Nearly no one. Specifically, it found that 2.7 percent of those who participated in the 2003-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey got 150 minutes of activity a week, had a healthy diet, didn't smoke, and had low levels of body fat.
"This is sort of mind boggling," Ellen Smit, a professor at Oregon State University who co-authored the study, which was published by the Mayo Clinic, said in a statement. "There's clearly a lot of room for improvement."
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