Sentences with phrase «american adults each year»

Experts say that the chronic diseases that affect millions of American adults each year - heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporiasis - get their start before and during the elementary school years when children are developing their dietary habits.

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According to the OECD, 45.7 percent of American adults between the ages of 25 and 64 have completed some kind of tertiary education in the form of a two - year degree, four - year degree or vocational program.

Over 44 million American adults have a side hustle today, according to a survey released earlier this year from the financial service company Bankrate.com.

Adding up everyone who has performed at least one of these three activities, some 24 percent of American adults have earned money in the «online economy» over the last year.

Earlier this year, ThePointsGuy.com commissioned Princeton Survey Research, which interviewed 1,003 American adults, to see how people use travel rewards cards and what they do with those rewards after earning them.

That survey, which polled 2,429 adults aged 18 years old or older, found about 87 percent of Americans don't buy the majority of their gifts during the Thanksgiving weekend.

American adults had less sex in the early 2010s than they did in the 1990s, to the tune of nine fewer times a year, according to new research published in Archives of Sexual Behavior.

According to the Pew Research Center, more than a quarter — 26 percent — of American adults have not read even part of a book within the past year.

Under its Internet and American Life Project, the Washington, D.C., - based nonprofit released a report that took stock of the year in social media and the findings show that we're all, unsurprisingly, connecting with each other online in a big way, with 73 percent of «online adults» using social media.

Fluent surveyed 3,240 American adults about which inventions they think are most likely to occur in the next 50 years, and the results are interesting to say the least.

A recent Gallup poll finds that 58 percent of Americans support legalization for adult use, up from 36 percent ten years ago.

Last year, a survey conducted by Harris for the National Endowment for Financial Education revealed that one - third of American adults in a relationship kept a hidden bank account, credit card or stash of cash.

Meanwhile, a Bankrate report finds that three in five American adults will face an «unexpected expense» this year (with car trouble, illness, and / or home repair topping the list.)

Given that only 18 percent of American adults say they're more active in organized religion today than they were ten years ago, while 32 percent said they're less active, perhaps religious leaders should take some comfort in the data here.

Forty years ago, 70 percent of American adults were married.

In interviews with CNN, religious leaders from Newtown, the site of last year's school shooting where 20 children and six adults were killed, said that a recent gun control agreement does not do enough to fight gun violence, leading one rabbi to doubt whether Congress was actually working for the American people.

An Urban Institute study from that year estimated that one in six nonelderly (under age 65) Americans lives in a family in which adults work at least half - time but family income falls below twice the federal poverty level.

Over the past seven years, evangelicals have lost less than 1 percent of their share of the population, holding steady at about 1 in 4 American adults (25.4 % in 2014, vs. 26.3 %...

The best data on religion come from the General Social Survey, administered through face - to - face interviews to a representative sample of some 1,500 English - speaking adult Americans every other year.

Since 2012, roughly 60 percent of American adults wish that same thing every year.

Since there are approximately 226 million adult Americans, this rate of private giving amounts to, on average, $ 1,300 per adult per year.

Fifty years ago, some 70 percent of American adults were married; today the figure is just over 50 percent.

Beer Is the Drink of Choice Among Americans, with Wine Moving Up in the Ranks: Beer had edged out wine as US adults (21 years and older) drink of choice, according to a survey by The Harris Poll that included responses from 2,148 people in late January 2017...

«Adults, me included, can't seem to stop talking about this, and it's crucial to get kids away from it,» said Steven Cope, a psychotherapist who on Saturday coached his seven - year - old son, Dylan, in an American Youth Soccer Organization game at Wards Island under the Triboro Bridge.

A consultant and trainer to more than 200 North American independent and public schools, Kim has been a school counselor, adult educator, consultant, researcher, educator and a private family counselor for 27 years.

Over the past 40 years, Americans have increasingly viewed these goals as in conflict: We fear discouraging divorce lest we create lasting marriages at the high cost of individual misery & 8212; almost certainly for adults and often for the children.

Even if you bought a historical American Girl doll and her entire accessory line, I don't think you'd hit $ 11,500 (though you might come close) and while I would still think that is an outrageously extravagant gift that even as an adult I am jealous of, at least it would be appropriate for a ten - year - old girl.

Same with lack of sleep — divorced and separated adults get less sleep than married couples, and about 250,000 traffic accidents a year are sleep related, 1,500 fatal, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) represents over 8,700 child and adolescent psychiatrists who are physicians with at least five years of additional training beyond medical school in general (adult) and child and adolescent psychiatry.

About 10 million children and 1 million adults attend an estimated 12,000 summer camps a year, a number that includes both residential and day camps, according to the American Camp Association.

Upon completion of this course, you will receive an American Heart Association Infant, Child and Adult Heartsaver certification card valid for 2 years.

Given studies showing «adult - sized impacts» that youth as young as seven years old are receiving, a significant percent of Americans, 40.5 percent, support a ban on youth playing contact football.

In a 2013 survey of adults and teens conducted online on behalf of the American Psychological Association by Harris Interactive Inc., Teen reported stress levels during the school year far exceeding what they believed to be healthy (5.8 vs. 3.9 on a 10 - point scale).

She is board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as an Adult Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, and has over 10 years» experience in the mental health field.

«One in 11 Americans has diabetes, and in the last 20 years, the number of adults diagnosed with diabetes has more than tripled,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. «Making small, healthy changes to our diets and lifestyle as we age can go a long way toward preventing the onset of this terrible disease, which is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.»

Nearly a quarter of online adults — 22 percent — used social networking sites to connect to the November elections last year, according to a study released today by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

It is estimated that mental illness affects 1 in 4 families in America, with an estimated 23 % of American adults 18 and older and 20 % of American children suffering from a mental disorder during a given year.

It found that the number of obese Americans will not plateau until it reaches 42 percent of adults (the rate has been about 34 percent for the past five years).

According to the American Brain Tumor Association, this type of tumor is the most common in adults, affecting as many as 300,000 people each year.

As for adults, a study this year in Environment International, conducted by researchers from eight institutions, tracked more than 45,000 African - American women across the United States.

Lead investigator Dr. Nicole Anderson, together with scientists from Canadian and American academic centres, examined 73 studies published over the last 45 years involving adults aged 50 - plus who were in formal volunteering roles.

Combining their numbers with climate data, they found that during the El Niño years (1992 - 93 and 1997 - 98), which bring cooler, wetter conditions to the birds» Central American wintering sites, juveniles born that season outnumbered adults 2 or 3 to 1.

About 30 percent of American adults live with hypertension and 65 percent of those 60 years and older have high blood pressure.

Studies show that young people who spend most of their time with responsible adults rather than with peers — one of the hallmarks of homeschooling — seem to be able to avoid the turmoil that is so typical of American adolescence and, in turn, the immaturity and uncertainty of the post-teen years here.

Adults who closely followed the Mediterranean diet were 47 percent less likely to develop heart disease over a 10 - year period compared to similar adults who did not closely follow the diet, according to a study to be presented at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session in San Adults who closely followed the Mediterranean diet were 47 percent less likely to develop heart disease over a 10 - year period compared to similar adults who did not closely follow the diet, according to a study to be presented at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session in San adults who did not closely follow the diet, according to a study to be presented at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session in San Diego.

Johns Hopkins researchers report that an analysis of survey responses and health records of more than 10,000 American adults for nearly 20 years suggests a «synergistic» link between exercise and good vitamin D levels in reducing the risk of heart attacks and strokes.

For 10 years Tuomilehto has collaborated with American investigators at the University of Southern California and the University of Michigan on a gene - mapping project for type 2 diabetes, formerly known as adult - onset diabetes.

While millions of Americans are trying to shed fat, in the past year three research teams announced that the adult body contains a peculiar kind of fat that we might prefer to hold on to.

Less than 1 percent of the entire population is addicted to gambling — a rate that has held steady for 40 years — even though surveys of American adults show that 72 percent have gambled at least once in the prior year.

6 In 2004 Americans filled more than 35 million prescriptions for sleeping pills.The number of adults aged 20 to 44 taking pills to help them fall asleep has doubled in the last four years.