Jan 23, 2006 19:59
Interesting facts
- 295,734,134 people live in the united states
-Four out of five American women say they're dissatisfied with the way they look.
-The average American woman is 5'4" tall and weighs 140 pounds
-The average American model is 5'11" tall and weighs 117 pounds.
-The number of people with eating disorders and borderline conditions is triple the number of people living with AIDS (664,921 people are living with AIDS).
-About 40% of the worlds population gas an income of less than two dollars a day.
-Obese children are twice as likely to live in low income homes.
-As of December 2004, 39 million people are living with aids.
-850 million people worldwide dont get enough food to eat each day.
-40 million people in United States have no health insurance.
-1.4 US men and woman are in the Military.
-81% of the united states is
white.
-52% of Americans are Protestant. 24% are Catholic then drops down to Mormons with 2%
-82% speak English.
-97% can read
-12% are below poverty. Our set poverty level is $18,850 for a family of four.
-On an "average day" in 2003, persons in the U.S. age 15 and over slept about 8.6 hours, spent 5.1 hours doing leisure and sports activities, worked for 3.7 hours, and spent 1.8 hours doing household activities. During the remaining 4.8 hours, Americans ate, drank, went to school and shopped.
I hope this made you think...I need to stop thinking about things SO much. TODAY WAS AMAZING. AICHA AICHA!!! I was in such a great mood. Now i need to go and do my homework.