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• 30 percent of U.S. adults 20 years of age and older (over 60 million people) are obese. (National Center for Health Statistics)
• In order to maintain a body weight in a healthy range, you need to balance the calories from food and drinks with the calories you use by walking, exercising, gardening, etc.  (USDA)
• To reduce the risk of chronic disease in adulthood, you should engage in at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity on most days of the week.
• To achieve total physical fitness, you should participate in cardiovascular conditioning, stretching exercises for flexibility, and resistance exercises for muscle strength and endurance.
• It is recommended that you eat at least five servings of fruits and/or vegetables every day.
• You should consume less than one teaspoon of salt each day.
• Your total fat intake should be less than 20 to 35 percent of your total amount of calories each day and fat is best when it comes from fish, nuts, and vegetable oil.
• You should eat at least three servings of whole-grain products per day, such as whole-grain bread, whole-grain rice or whole-grain pasta.
• You should eat a variety of fruits and vegetables each day.  Especially, you should choose from all five vegetable subgroups (dark green, orange, legumes, starchy vegetables, and other vegetables) several times a week.
• The majority of parents in the U.S. (78 percent) believe that physical education or recess should not be reduced or replaced with academic classes.
• A calorie is a measure of energy from food.  3,500 kilocalories of food energy equal one pound of body weight.
• Physical activity doesn’t have to be just exercise like running and biking; it also includes sweeping the floors, raking the leaves, mowing the lawn, mopping and other daily activities.
• Of the total of 2,391,400 deaths in the U.S. in 2000, poor diet and no physical activity accounted for an estimated 17 percent (approximately 400,000 deaths).