Health and Nutrition of Pleasant Hill, IL Residents

Diet Behavior & Nutrition

Forty three percent of Pleasant Hill residents report that their diet is generally healthy. People here have milk to drink or on their cereal 18 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 two 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 five frozen meals or frozen pizzas on average monthly.

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Oral Health

The average Pleasant Hill 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). Eleven percent of people living here 30 years of age and older, are embarrassed because of their teeth, mouth or dentures. Seventeen percent think they might have gum disease (might have swollen gums, receding gums, sore or infected gums or loose teeth). Pleasant Hill 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 three days per week. They also use mouthwash or other dental rinse products to treat dental disease or dental problems an average of four days per week. The average person living here (including children) has 26 teeth.

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Weight

The average height of Pleasant Hill residents 16 years and older is 65 inches. The average weight is 170 pounds. Their average BMI (Body Mass Index) is 27. Twenty nine percent of people living here are obese. Thirty nine percent have ever been obese. Thirty eight percent have ever tried to lose weight.

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Drug Use

Sixty six percent of Pleasant Hill residents have ever used marijuana or hashish. Twenty nine percent of people living here have ever used cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin or methamphetamine. Twenty eight percent have ever used any form of cocaine, such as powder, 'crack', 'free base', and coca paste. Twenty one percent have ever used methamphetamines.

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Diabetes

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

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Kidney Conditions-Urology

Pleasant Hill 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

Four percent of Pleasant Hill 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. Three percent have been having problems with their ability to taste sweet, sour, salty or bitter foods and drinks. Fifty eight percent of people above the age of 40 have ever had wisdom teeth removed. Ten percent have ever had their tonsils removed. Fourteen percent have lost consciousness because of a head injury. Fourteen percent have ever had a broken nose or other serious injury to face or skull. Twenty percent have had two or more sinus infections.

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Health Insurance

Sixty two percent of people living in Pleasant Hill are covered by health insurance or some other kind of health care plan.

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Blood Pressure & Cholesterol

Eight percent of people living in Pleasant Hill have been ever told by a doctor or other health professional that they had hypertension (also called high blood pressure). Twelve percent of people take their blood pressure at home. Twenty five percent of people in Pleasant Hill frequently check their blood cholesterol. Eleven 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

Twenty eight percent of people living in Pleasant Hill use sunscreen.

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Mental Health

Forty two percent of Pleasant Hill residents 18 years old and older have usually little interest or pleasure in doing things. Forty two percent often feel down, depressed, or hopeless. Fifty three percent of people living here have trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleep too much. Sixty percent of people often feel tired or have little energy. Forty six percent are bothered by poor appetite or overeating. Thirty nine percent often feel badly about themselves, that they are a failure or have let themselves or their families down. Thirty three percent have trouble concentrating on things, such as reading the newspaper or watching TV. Thirty six 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. Ten percent have thoughts that they would be better off dead or of hurting themselves in some way.

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Prescription Medications

Pleasant Hill residents on average take one prescription medicines.

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Alcohol use

Eighty four percent of people living in Pleasant Hill have at least one alcoholic drink per month. Nine percent of people living here do not drink alcohol at all. People living here drink alcohol 4.7 days per month on average. They have 6.4 drinks per week. On average people living here have 5 or more drinks on 21 days a year.

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Sexual Behavior

Ninety seven percent of Pleasant Hill residents 18 years and older have ever had vaginal, anal or oral sex. Ninety one percent of males have ever had vaginal sex with a woman. Seventy nine percent have ever performed oral sex on a woman. Forty seven percent have ever had anal sex with a woman. Four percent of males in Pleasant Hill have ever had any kind of sex with a man, including oral or anal. Ninety seven percent of females have ever had vaginal sex with a man. Eighty eight percent have ever performed oral sex on a man. Sixty one percent have ever had anal sex. Thirty six percent of females have ever had any kind of sex with a woman. People in Pleasant Hill 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 19 women. He has vaginal sex with 13 women. People living here were on average 21 years old when they first performed oral sex on a woman. In their lifetime they performed oral sex on average on three women. Males in their lifetime have anal or oral sex with 0.9 men on average. People in Pleasant Hill were 19 years old on average when they first performed oral sex on a man. They performed oral sex on average on two men in their lifetime. Thirteen percent of people use protection, like a condom or dental dam, while performing oral sex. The average person in Pleasant Hill has vaginal or anal sex 74 times a year. Thirty nine percent have sex without using a condom. Females in Pleasant Hill 18 years and older have had any kind of sex with 12 men on average. They have had 12 male vaginal sex partners in their lifetimes. Women here have on average 1.1 female sex partners in their lifetimes. Fifty nine percent of men 18 years old and older are circumcised.

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Pesticide Use

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

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Sleep Disorders

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

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Smoking-Cigarette Use

Fifty eight percent of Pleasant Hill residents currently smoke cigarettes.

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Physical Activity

Eighteen percent of Pleasant Hill 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 seven 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. Thirty eight percent walk or bicycle for at least 10 minutes continuously to get to and from places. Twenty 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 three 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 six 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 two 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 1.3 hours per day.

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Medical Conditions

Nine percent of Pleasant Hill residents have ever been told by a doctor or other health professional that they had asthma. Four percent of people living here has anemia, sometimes called "tired blood" or "low blood". Thirty percent are overweight. Twenty eight percent of people 60 years and older have difficulties in thinking or remembering that can make a big difference in everyday activities (this does not refer to occasionally forgetting your keys or the name of someone you recently met). This refers to things like confusion or memory loss that are happening more often or getting worse. Seven percent of people living in Pleasant Hill have ever received a blood transfusion. Twenty two percent have trouble seeing, even when wearing glasses or contact lenses. Ten percent of people 20 and older have arthritis. One percent have ever been told they had gout. One percent have congestive heart failure. One percent have coronary heart disease. One percent have ever had a heart attack, also called myocardial infarction. Three percent have been ever told by a doctor or other health professional that they had a stroke. Five percent have another thyroid problem. One percent have ever had chronic bronchitis. Two percent of people had any kind of liver condition. Three percent have ever had cancer or a malignancy of any kind.

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Reproductive Health

Sixty four percent of births in Pleasant Hill were vaginal deliveries. Thirty six percent of deliveries were cesarean. 98.7 percent of deliveries resulted in live births. Fifty six percent of pregnancies resulted in a delivery. Fifty two percent of women breastfeed their children. Fifty five percent have ever taken birth control pills for any reason. Five percent of women are currently taking birth control pills. Twenty five percent have ever used Depo-Provera or injectable birth control to prevent pregnancy.

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Current Health Status

People living in Pleasant Hill report their general health condition on average at 50 percent. Two percent of them donate blood. Excluding tests they have had as part of blood donations, 44 percent of Pleasant Hill residents have ever had their blood tested for the AIDS virus infection. Five percent of people living in Pleasant Hill are left-handed.

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Consumer Behavior

People in Pleasant Hill spend $357 per month on average on food for their families at supermarkets or grocery stores. This is 23 percent of their income. The average family in Pleasant Hill spends $108 on food at other stores monthly. This is seven percent of their income. They spend $128 on eating out, including cafeterias at work or at school or on vending machines. This is nine percent of their income. They also spend $20 monthly on carried out or delivered food. This is two percent of their income.

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Audiometry

People living in Pleasant Hill report their general condition of hearing on average at 83 percent. Eighty nine 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. Ninety nine percent of people can hear a normal voice across a quiet room. Twelve percent of Pleasant Hill population have been bothered by ringing, roaring or buzzing in their ears or head. Forty 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. Ten percent of people in Pleasant Hill had off-work exposure to loud noise.

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Preventive Aspirin Use

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

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Physical Functioning

Nine percent of Pleasant Hill residents 20 or older have limitations caused by a long-term physical, mental or emotional problems or illnesses keeping them from working at a job or business. Fourteen percent are limited in the kind or amount of work they can do because of physical, mental or emotional problems. Seven percent have difficulty walking without using any special equipment. Eight percent are limited in any way because of difficulty remembering or because they experience periods of confusion. Seven percent of people here have health problems that require them to use special equipment, such as a cane, wheelchair, special bed or special telephone.

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