Lesson 9: Food And Relapse Prevention - Slide  10

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People Are Eating A Lot Of Fat!

  • According to a recent survey
  • Americans eat more fat per person than any other nation in the world
  • About 110 million Americans between 18 and 79 years old are overweight
  • If these people ate 600 less calories daily, the total reduced intake would be 5.7 trillion calories or the energy equivalent to:
  • The yearly residential electricity use of Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, DC
  • 1.3 billion gallons of gasoline, the fuel for about 1 million cars for a year

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