Is the number one national security and sovereignty threat terrorism or immigration? Nope. It’s the unhealthy lifestyle of Americans that threaten their own way of life.

A recent study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association found that many US young adults have unhealthy lifestyle factors, and in turn have an increase amount of cardiometabolic diseases such obesity, diabetes, chronic kidney diseases, fatty liver disease, dyslipidemia, and hypertension.

Their study was based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2011 to 2018 of 10,405 participants, between the ages of 18 to 44 years old. They found the prevalence of excessive drinking to be 16.3%, poor diet to be 49.3% smoking to be 22%, inadequate physical activity to 25.7%, and inappropriate sleep duration to the 35.8%.

As a result of all this unhealthy living, amongst them, the prevalence of obesity was 35.7%, severe obesity to be 7.9%, hypertension to be 10.2%, prediabetes 25.8%, diabetes 4.4%, chronic kidney disease 6.8%, fatty liver disease to be 31.1%, and metabolic syndrome was 18.9%.

The lack of discipline, self-control, and real self care is lacking among young Americans, and as a result they are earning themselves a lifelong experience of premature lost of healthy years in life. Worry less about how other people are some threat to you because you are the biggest threat to yourself through your own lifestyle choices.

S Shi et al. Lifestlye behaviors and cardiometabolic diseases by race and ethnicity and social risk factors among US young adults, 2011 to 2018. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.122.028926