Health and Nutrition of Tabernash, CO Residents

Diet Behavior & Nutrition

Fifty eight percent of Tabernash 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 four 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 one of these meals from a fast-food or pizza place. People here eat three "ready to eat" foods such as salads, soups, chicken, sandwiches and cooked vegetables per month.

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Oral Health

The average Tabernash resident last visited a dentist one years ago (including all types of dentists, such as, orthodontists, oral surgeons, and all other dental specialists, as well as dental hygienists). Seven percent think they might have gum disease (might have swollen gums, receding gums, sore or infected gums or loose teeth). Tabernash residents rate the overall health of their teeth and gums on average at 63 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 three days per week. They also use mouthwash or other dental rinse products to treat dental disease or dental problems an average of two days per week. The average person living here (including children) has 27 teeth.

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Weight

The average height of Tabernash residents 16 years and older is 66 inches. The average weight is 181 pounds. Their average BMI (Body Mass Index) is 30. Forty six percent of people living here are obese. Forty seven percent have ever been obese. Forty percent have ever tried to lose weight.

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Drug Use

Forty eight percent of Tabernash residents have ever used marijuana or hashish. Fourteen percent of people living here have ever used cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin or methamphetamine. Twelve percent have ever used any form of cocaine, such as powder, 'crack', 'free base', and coca paste. One percent have ever used heroin.

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Diabetes

Four percent of people living in Tabernash have ever been told by a doctor or health professional that they have diabetes. Fifty five percent of people had a blood test for high sugar or diabetes within the past three years.

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Kidney Conditions-Urology

Tabernash 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

Five percent of Tabernash residents above the age of 40 have problems with their ability to smell, such as not being able to smell things or things not smelling the way they are supposed to. Sixty nine percent of people above the age of 40 have ever had wisdom teeth removed. Twenty nine percent have ever had their tonsils removed. Eight percent have lost consciousness because of a head injury. Ten percent have ever had a broken nose or other serious injury to face or skull. Twenty eight percent have had two or more sinus infections.

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Health Insurance

Eighty four percent of people living in Tabernash are covered by health insurance or some other kind of health care plan.

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Blood Pressure & Cholesterol

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

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Dermatology

Forty seven percent of people living in Tabernash use sunscreen.

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Mental Health

Sixteen percent of Tabernash residents 18 years old and older have usually little interest or pleasure in doing things. Fifteen percent often feel down, depressed, or hopeless. Twenty two percent of people living here have trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleep too much. Fifty percent of people often feel tired or have little energy. Ten percent often feel badly about themselves, that they are a failure or have let themselves or their families down. Ten percent have trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching TV. Seven 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. Two percent have thoughts that they would be better off dead or of hurting themselves in some way.

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Prescription Medications

Tabernash residents on average take one prescription medicines.

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Alcohol use

Seventy five percent of people living in Tabernash have at least one alcoholic drink per month. Eight percent of people living here do not drink alcohol at all. People living here drink alcohol 4.4 days per month on average. They have 3.0 drinks per week. On average people living here have 5 or more drinks on 10 days a year.

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Sexual Behavior

Ninety nine percent of Tabernash residents 18 years and older have ever had vaginal, anal or oral sex. Ninety eight percent of males have ever had vaginal sex with a woman. Eighty nine percent have ever performed oral sex on a woman. Fifty seven percent have ever had anal sex with a woman. Nine percent of males in Tabernash have ever had any kind of sex with a man, including oral or anal. Ninety eight percent of females have ever had vaginal sex with a man. Ninety two percent have ever performed oral sex on a man. Fifteen percent have ever had anal sex. Five percent of females have ever had any kind of sex with a woman. People in Tabernash were 17 years old on average when they had sex for the first time. The average man in his lifetime had any kind of sex with 17 women. He has vaginal sex with 18 women. People living here were on average 22 years old when they first performed oral sex on a woman. In their lifetime they performed oral sex on average on four women. Males in their lifetime have anal or oral sex with 3.1 men on average. They have had 2.0 anal sex partners in their lifetime. People in Tabernash were 20 years old on average when they first performed oral sex on a man. They performed oral sex on average on four men in their lifetime. Nine percent of people use protection, like a condom or dental dam, while performing oral sex. The average person in Tabernash has vaginal or anal sex 42 times a year. Forty three percent have sex without using a condom. Females in Tabernash 18 years and older have had any kind of sex with seven men on average. Women here have on average 0.3 female sex partners in their lifetimes. Forty five percent of men 18 years old and older are circumcised.

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Pesticide Use

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

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Sleep Disorders

Tabernash residents 16 years and older usually get seven hours of sleep at night on weekdays or workdays. Twelve percent of them have trouble sleeping.

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Smoking-Cigarette Use

Twenty six percent of Tabernash residents currently smoke cigarettes.

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Physical Activity

Fourteen percent of Tabernash 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. Twenty three 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. Twenty nine percent walk or bicycle for at least 10 minutes continuously to get to and from places. Twenty seven 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. Thirty six 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 seven 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 2.2 hours per day.

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Medical Conditions

Nineteen percent of Tabernash residents have ever been told by a doctor or other health professional that they had asthma. One percent of people living here has anemia, sometimes called "tired blood" or "low blood". Three percent of people 16 years and older have ever been told by a doctor or other health care professional that they had psoriasis. Twenty seven percent are overweight. Sixteen percent of people living in Tabernash have ever received a blood transfusion. Ten percent have trouble seeing, even when wearing glasses or contact lenses. Fifteen percent of people 20 and older have arthritis. Two percent have ever been told they had gout. Two percent of people had any kind of liver condition. Fifteen percent have ever had cancer or a malignancy of any kind.

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Reproductive Health

Twenty eight percent of births in Tabernash were vaginal deliveries. Seventy two percent of deliveries were cesarean. 100.0 percent of deliveries resulted in live births. Eighty three percent of pregnancies resulted in a delivery. Ninety six percent of women breastfeed their children. Seventy six percent have ever taken birth control pills for any reason.

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Current Health Status

People living in Tabernash report their general health condition on average at 65 percent. Three percent of them donate blood. Excluding tests they have had as part of blood donations, 30 percent of Tabernash residents have ever had their blood tested for the AIDS virus infection. Seventeen percent of people living in Tabernash are left-handed.

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Consumer Behavior

People in Tabernash spend $398 per month on average on food for their families at supermarkets or grocery stores. This is 13 percent of their income. The average family in Tabernash spends $142 on food at other stores monthly. This is five percent of their income. They spend $236 on eating out, including cafeterias at work or at school or on vending machines. This is six percent of their income. They also spend $28 monthly on carried out or delivered food. This is one percent of their income.

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Audiometry

People living in Tabernash report their general condition of hearing on average at 85 percent. Ninety 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. Twenty two 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. Nine percent of people in Tabernash had off-work exposure to loud noise.

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Preventive Aspirin Use

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

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Physical Functioning

Seventeen percent are limited in the kind or amount of work they can do because of physical, mental or emotional problems. Three percent have difficulty walking without using any special equipment.

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