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Did You Know?
- In a national survey, total cash compensation levels for executives and managers at profit and nonprofit hospitals rose 7.2 percent during fiscal year 2005.
- Your body produces four to five billion red blood cells in an hour.
- Tobacco companies spend $28 on marketing for every $1 state governments spend on prevention.
- Since 2001, the Join United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS has estimated that roughly five million people were newly infected each year, even though billions of dollars have been spent in the last four years on prevention and treatment.
- In 2003, 2.3 million 12- to 17-year-olds -- almost one in 10 -- abused at least one controlled prescription drug.
- Over the last 30 years the rate of childhood obesity has tripled among youngsters aged 6 to 11 and has doubled for those aged 2 to 5 and 12 to 19.
- Since 1982, the standard size of a hamburger has increased 112 percent. Bagels are 95 percent bigger than they were two decades ago and servings of pasta have gone up 480 percent.
- MS is the most common neurological disease affecting young to middle-aged adults and is typically diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50.
- Every 49 minutes, an American is spinal cord injured.
- An estimated 556,500 Americans will die of cancer this year, the nation's second-leading killer after heart disease. Some 1.3 million will be diagnosed with cancer.
