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Healthy People 2010: Americans Falling Short of Federal Benchmarks

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That is what I am saying too. The food pyramid back when it was around in the degree options of college educations appeared to be almost completely backwards in what healthy living should be. It is not a surprise that our culture is overweight and it gives reason to why there are so many medical assistant careers to fill. http://www.jones.edu/medical-assistant-classes.html

medicalassistantvet of FL 10:38AM October 30, 2010

I think it would be really interesting to see articles like this breakdown these statistics in a little more detail and show what the US health picture looks like when broken down by income or wealth or both.
I see many articles that say the US is way behind other industralized countries in some specific health care statistic, but I think if you broke the US population down into groups we would see that the higher income segments of the US population are doing very very well but the lower segments of the US population are doing much worse.
This is a story of the haves and the have nots in the US.

JJ of PA 10:18AM October 25, 2010