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Healthy Trails Stats and Facts

Healthy Trails Stats and Facts. A Health Crisis. Physical inactivity combined with overeating has, in just a few decades, made us a nation of fat and out-of-shape people. A Health Crisis.

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Healthy Trails Stats and Facts

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  1. Healthy TrailsStats and Facts

  2. A Health Crisis • Physical inactivity combined with overeating has, in just a few decades, made us a nation of fat and out-of-shape people.

  3. A Health Crisis • The incidence of overweight or obese adults increased steadily from 47 percent in 1976, to 56 percent in 1994, and 61 percent in 1999.

  4. A Health Crisis • Since 1980, obesity rates for adults have doubled and rates for children have tripled

  5. A Health Crisis • Physical inactivity and obesity rank second to smoking in their contribution to total mortality in the United States.

  6. A Health Crisis • In 2000, obesity-related health care costs totaled an estimated $117 billion.

  7. Recommended Physical Activity • It is recommended that Americans accumulate at least 30 minutes (adults) or 60 minutes (children) of moderate physical activity most days of the week.

  8. Recommended Physical Activity • More may be needed to prevent weight gain, to lose weight or to maintain weight loss.

  9. Daily Physical Activity • About 25 percent of all trips made in the United States are less than one mile in length, and 75 percent of those short trips are made by automobile (1995 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey).

  10. Daily Physical Activity • We don’t walk or bicycle as much as we used to, partly because our communities — designed around the automobile — lack walkways and bikeways that would otherwise accommodate and encourage such activity.

  11. Daily Physical Activity • Even where facilities exist, features that support driving, such as wide roads and intersections, large parking lots and drive-through businesses, create an environment that is uncomfortable and unsafe for nonmotorists.

  12. The Vision Active Community Environments encourage and accommodate walking and bicycling through their approach to: • Transportation facilities and services. • Land-use planning and development. • Schools. • Recreation, parks and trails. • Safety, security and crime prevention.

  13. Transportation Facilities and Services There are safe, easy and pleasant places for people of all ages to walk or bicycle using public streets and highways.

  14. Transportation Facilities and Services • A balanced system that includes transit, walking, bicycling and automobiles provides people with appropriate transportation choices.

  15. Get Off The Couch! • We need to encourage children and adults to change their lifestyles.

  16. Get Off The Couch! • Walking/Hiking/Bird Watching • Bicycles- Road/Trail/Mountain Biking • Paddlers- Canoeing/Kayaking • Snowmobiles • Atv’s • Equestrians

  17. Get Off The Couch! • All forms of recreation provide some form of physical activity

  18. Partnerships To Healthy Trails • By partnering with other user groups, we can make available more possibilities for healthy trails • By partnering with Health Care Providers and Employer Companies, it will benefit everyone

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