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of Canadians DO NOT have a regular medical doctor

20% 15

15.2%
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16.1%
20% 15 10

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Most popular leisure activities: Walking Gardening Home exercise Swimming Bicycling Jogging

have arthritis*

of Canadians were at least moderately active during their leisure time

60% 50 40

52.1%
01 03 05 07 08

Females Males

07

08

09

10

*Aged 15+

09

10

8.5%
have asthma
10% 8 6 01 03 05 07 08 09 10

A look at various health indicators for Canadians

6.4%
8% 7 6 5 4

have diabetes

23.5%
say most days are extremely or quite a bit stressful
25% 20 Aged 15+ 03 05 07 08 09 10

How healthy are we?

perceive their health as very good or excellent
80% 70 60 50
15 20% 10

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43.3% 60.1% 17.5%

of Canadians have high blood pressure
60% 50 40

consumed fruit and vegetables ve or more times per day

20.8%
30% 25 20 15 Males aged 12 or over Females aged 12 or over Ages 16 to 19

of Canadians smoke daily or occassionally

01 03 05 07 08 09 10
50%

01 03 05

07 08

09 10

30

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Obese men Obese women

of Canadians aged 18+ roughly 4.5 million adults are obese

01 03 05 07 08 09 10

18.1%

When those who were overweight were included, 60.9% of Canadian men and 43.7% of women had an increased health risk because of excess weight

40 30 20 10

Overweight men Overweight women

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05

07

08

09

10

Sources: Statistics Canada

SUSAN BATSFORD, GRAPHICS EDITOR, TWITTER @SBATS1; INFOGRAPHIC BY TARA MARTIN/QMI AGENCY