Here are some random points on world health that some of you might be interested in reading, even though I know most of you don't really care. I cannot say if these numbers are actual fact but I am at least one person of the belief that there is more truth than fiction represented here:
1. Americans constitute 5% of the world's population but consume 24% of the world's energy. On average, one American consumes as much energy as two Japanese, six Mexicans, 13 Chinese, 31 Indians, 128 Bangladeshis, 307 Tanzanians, and 370 Ethiopians.
2. The population is projected to increase by nearly 130 million people - the equivalent of adding another four states the size of California - by the year 2050.
3. 40% of births in America are unintended and nearly 10% of children born in America are raised by a man who believes he is the child's biological father but is actually not.
4. Americans eat 815 billion calories of food each day - that's roughly 200 billion more than needed - enough to feed 80 million people.
5. Americans throw out 200,000 tons of edible food daily.
6. The average American generates 52 tons of garbage by age 75.
7. The average individual daily consumption of water in America is 159 gallons, while more than half the world's population lives on 25 gallons.
8. 50% of the wetlands, 90% of the northwestern old-growth forests, and 99% of the tall-grass prairie have been destroyed in the last 200 years.
9. 80% of the corn grown and 95% of the oats are fed to livestock.
10. 56% percent of available farmland is used for beef production.
11. Every day an estimated nine square miles of rural land are lost to development.
12. There are more shopping malls than high schools in America.
"You can keep yourself from the suffering of change, but if you do not change you will suffer." - Jack Wilkinson, The Deal with 44
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