Healthy and Unhealthy Trends

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The good news in a Harris Poll about Americans’ healthy or unhealthy lifestyles: Increasing numbers of people always use a seatbelt. The bad news: Many of them likely have trouble getting the belt around their waist.

To even out single-year blips in the data, the Harris report looked at health factors in multi-year increments dating back to 1983. In the period 1983-1985, 59 percent of respondents age 25-plus were overweight and 15 percent obese. By 1996-2000, 75 percent were overweight and 28 percent obese.

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