FEMALE HEALTH ISSUES

FEMALE HEALTH ISSUES
By the numbers
One of 10 eighth-grade girls reported smoking daily.
By ninth grade, two-thirds of girls said they had tried alcohol.
In females age 12 to 24 with anorexia, the annual mortality rate is 12 times higher than the yearly death rate from all other causes in the same age group.
In 1971, an estimated 3.6 percent of 6- to 11-year-old girls in the United States suffered from obesity; by 2000, that figure had grown to about 14.5 percent.
Between 1988 and 1994, the number of women over age 20 who were obese or severely obese was around 26 percent and 4 percent, respectively; in 2000, the percentages were 34 percent and 6.3 percent, respectively.
Sources: Centers for Disease Control, National Center for Health Statistics