Fun Facts from the Paper

I saw these couple of interesting facts in the paper today, thought I would pass them along for amusement/thought provoking coffee conversation.

*According to the USDA, Americans are consuming more then 3x the amount of cheese now then they did in 1970. In 1970, the average cheese consumption was 11.4 pounds per person per year, in 2010 that number had increased to 33.3 pounds per person per year.

*A Gallup poll of 335,050 adults in the USA, asked people to self report the number of days per week they engaged in 30 minutes or more of exercise.
    -52% said they exercised 3 or more days in the week
   - 19% said they exercised 1-2 days in the week
   - 30% of people said they did not exercise at all

This is an interesting stat if you consider that 1 in 7 people in the world is obese and by 2013 that number will increase to 1 in 6. We also know that very few states in the USA have 50% or less of their people in the obese category - in fact if Obesity was a state it would be the 5th largest in the country with 15 million residents (though if you really think about how many of those residents would be relocating from some of the states bigger then it like Texas, California and Florida and therefore Obesity would actually probably be higher on that list).