Fact or Fiction

October – Fact or Fiction: The percentage of adults in the U.S. who are obese has leveled off in the last several years.

October – Fact or Fiction: Boys miss more school days due to illness and injury than girls.

September – Fact or Fiction: The use of antidepressant medication is more common among women than men.

May – Fact or Fiction: Mortality rates from skin cancer are highest in the sun belt states of the U.S.

April – Fact or Fiction: A growing percentage of Americans with hypertension are unaware they have it.

February – Fact or Fiction: The death rate from drug overdoses in the U.S. has increased most rapidly among young people over the last decade and a half.

January – Fact or Fiction: Most boys and girls drink sugar-sweetened beverages each day.

September – Fact or Fiction: Leukemia is the leading form of cancer death among children and teens.

August – Fact or Fiction: Cancer is now the leading cause of death in the majority of U.S. states.

March – Fact or Fiction: One out of every two marriages will end in divorce.

March – Fact or Fiction: A third of all young people in the U.S. eat nuts.

November – Fact or Fiction: Obesity rates in the United States have not changed in the past 15 years.

October – Fact or Fiction: The death rate from breast cancer for women 35 and over is considerably lower than it was over two decades ago.

September – Fact or Fiction: The Mountain West subregion of the U.S. has the highest suicide rate in the nation.

August – Fact or Fiction: Mortality from heart disease in the U.S. has declined each year for the past 50 years.

July – Fact or Fiction: A growing majority of teenagers in the U.S. have had sexual intercourse.