Health and Nutrition of Pine Grove, WV Residents

Diet Behavior & Nutrition

Fifty five percent of Pine Grove residents report that their diet is generally healthy. People here have milk to drink or on their cereal 14 times per month. This includes chocolate and other flavored milks, as well as hot cocoa made with milk, and does not count small amounts of milk added to coffee or tea. People living here eat an average of six meals (breakfasts, lunches or dinners) per week that were prepared away from home in places such as restaurants, fast food places, food stands, grocery stores or from vending machines. They get three of these meals from a fast-food or pizza place. People here eat two "ready to eat" foods such as salads, soups, chicken, sandwiches and cooked vegetables per month. They also eat one frozen meals or frozen pizzas on average monthly.

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Oral Health

The average Pine Grove resident last visited a dentist two years ago (including all types of dentists, such as, orthodontists, oral surgeons, and all other dental specialists, as well as dental hygienists). Thirty one percent of people living here 30 years of age and older, are embarrassed because of their teeth, mouth or dentures. Twenty five percent think they might have gum disease (might have swollen gums, receding gums, sore or infected gums or loose teeth). Pine Grove residents rate the overall health of their teeth and gums on average at 44 percent. People living here aged 30 years and older, aside from brushing their teeth with toothbrush, use dental floss or any other device that clean between teeth on average five days per week. They also use mouthwash or other dental rinse products to treat dental disease or dental problems an average of three days per week. The average person living here (including children) has 26 teeth.

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Weight

The average height of Pine Grove residents 16 years and older is 70 inches. The average weight is 209 pounds. Their average BMI (Body Mass Index) is 31. Twenty six percent of people living here are obese. Sixty percent have ever been obese. Fifty five percent have ever tried to lose weight.

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Drug Use

Fifty eight percent of Pine Grove residents have ever used marijuana or hashish. Forty eight percent of people living here have ever used cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin or methamphetamine. Forty eight percent have ever used any form of cocaine, such as powder, 'crack', 'free base', and coca paste. Thirty four percent have ever used methamphetamines.

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Diabetes

Sixty percent of people had a blood test for high sugar or diabetes within the past three years.

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Kidney Conditions-Urology

Pine Grove residents 20 years and older on average get up to urinate one time at night (from time they go to bed at night until the time they get up in the morning).

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Taste & Smell

Hundred percent of people above the age of 40 have ever had wisdom teeth removed. Twenty five percent have lost consciousness because of a head injury. Thirty three percent have ever had a broken nose or other serious injury to face or skull. Twenty five percent have had two or more sinus infections.

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Health Insurance

Forty four percent of people living in Pine Grove are covered by health insurance or some other kind of health care plan.

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Blood Pressure & Cholesterol

Seventeen percent of people living in Pine Grove have been ever told by a doctor or other health professional that they had hypertension (also called high blood pressure). Seventeen percent of people take their blood pressure at home. Thirty four percent of people in Pine Grove frequently check their blood cholesterol. Fifty percent of people have ever been told by a doctor or other health professional that their blood cholesterol level was high.

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Dermatology

Thirty two percent of people living in Pine Grove use sunscreen.

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Mental Health

Twenty six percent of Pine Grove residents 18 years old and older have usually little interest or pleasure in doing things. Fourteen percent often feel down, depressed, or hopeless. Forty percent of people living here have trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleep too much. Fifty seven percent of people often feel tired or have little energy. Twenty two percent are bothered by poor appetite or overeating. Nine percent often feel badly about themselves, that they are a failure or have let themselves or their families down. Twenty three percent have trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching TV. Eighteen percent of people living here move or speak so slowly that other people could have noticed, or the opposite - being so fidgety or restless that they have been moving around a lot more than usual.

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Prescription Medications

Pine Grove residents on average take one prescription medicines.

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Alcohol use

Eighty three percent of people living in Pine Grove have at least one alcoholic drink per month. Seventeen percent of people living here do not drink alcohol at all. People living here drink alcohol 3.5 days per month on average. They have 3.8 drinks per week. On average people living here have 5 or more drinks on 17 days a year.

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Sexual Behavior

Hundred percent of Pine Grove residents 18 years and older have ever had vaginal, anal or oral sex. Ninety five percent of males have ever had vaginal sex with a woman. Ninety one percent have ever performed oral sex on a woman. People in Pine Grove were 16 years old on average when they had sex for the first time. The average man in his lifetime had any kind of sex with 11 women. He has vaginal sex with eight women. People living here were on average 19 years old when they first performed oral sex on a woman. In their lifetime they performed oral sex on average on three women. People in Pine Grove were 17 years old on average when they first performed oral sex on a man. The average person in Pine Grove has vaginal or anal sex 42 times a year. Sixty three percent have sex without using a condom. Sixty two percent of men 18 years old and older are circumcised.

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Pesticide Use

Thirteen percent of households in Pine Grove use chemical products in their homes to control fleas, roaches, ants, termites or other insects.

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Sleep Disorders

Pine Grove residents 16 years and older usually get seven hours of sleep at night on weekdays or workdays. Twenty two percent of them have trouble sleeping.

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Smoking-Cigarette Use

Fifty percent of Pine Grove residents currently smoke cigarettes.

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Physical Activity

Twenty two percent of Pine Grove residents' work involve vigorous-intensity activity that causes large increases in breathing or heart rate, like carrying or lifting heavy loads, digging or construction work for at least 10 minutes continuously. Sixty percent of people do moderate-intensity activities at work that cause small increases in breathing or heart rate such as brisk walking or carrying light loads for at least 10 minutes continuously. Forty nine percent walk or bicycle for at least 10 minutes continuously to get to and from places. Forty four percent do any vigorous-intensity sports, fitness or recreational activities that cause large increases in breathing or heart rate like running or basketball for at least 10 minutes continuously. Seventy four percent do any moderate-intensity sports, fitness or recreational activities that cause a small increase in breathing or heart rate such as brisk walking, bicycling, swimming or golf for at least 10 minutes continuously. People living here spend five hours sitting on a typical day (this includes sitting at work, at home, getting to and from places, or with friends, including time spent sitting at a desk, traveling in a car or bus, reading, playing cards, watching television or using a computer). They usually sit and watch TV or videos for about three hours per day. They use a computer or play computer games (including Playstation, Nintendo DS, or other portable video games) outside of work or school for 2.4 hours per day.

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Medical Conditions

Thirty nine percent are overweight. Thirteen percent have trouble seeing, even when wearing glasses or contact lenses. Twenty five percent of people 20 and older have arthritis. Thirteen percent have ever had a heart attack, also called myocardial infarction.

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Current Health Status

People living in Pine Grove report their general health condition on average at 54 percent. Five percent of them donate blood. Excluding tests they have had as part of blood donations, 23 percent of Pine Grove residents have ever had their blood tested for the AIDS virus infection.

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Consumer Behavior

People in Pine Grove spend $233 per month on average on food for their families at supermarkets or grocery stores. This is 11 percent of their income. The average family in Pine Grove spends $85 on food at other stores monthly. This is 11 percent of their income. They spend $111 on eating out, including cafeterias at work or at school or on vending machines. This is 19 percent of their income. They also spend $10 monthly on carried out or delivered food. This is two percent of their income.

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Audiometry

People living in Pine Grove report their general condition of hearing on average at 87 percent. Seventy five percent of them can usually hear and understand, without the use of a hearing aid or any other listening devices, what a person says without seeing his or her face if that person whispers to them from across a quiet room. Hundred percent of people can hear a normal voice across a quiet room. Nine percent of Pine Grove population have been bothered by ringing, roaring or buzzing in their ears or head. Sixty percent of people living here have ever had a job where they were exposed to loud sounds or noise. Loud means so loud that they must speak in a raised voice to be heard. Twenty six percent of people in Pine Grove had off-work exposure to loud noise.

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Preventive Aspirin Use

Twenty five percent of Pine Grove residents 40 and older take a low-dose aspirin each day to prevent heart attacks, strokes or cancer.

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Physical Functioning

Thirty eight percent are limited in the kind or amount of work they can do because of physical, mental or emotional problems.

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