Health and Nutrition of Rudyard, MT Residents

Diet Behavior & Nutrition

Forty six percent of Rudyard residents report that their diet is generally healthy. People here have milk to drink or on their cereal 20 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 three "ready to eat" foods such as salads, soups, chicken, sandwiches and cooked vegetables per month. They also eat eight frozen meals or frozen pizzas on average monthly.

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Oral Health

The average Rudyard 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). Rudyard residents rate the overall health of their teeth and gums on average at 52 percent. The average person living here (including children) has 29 teeth.

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Weight

The average height of Rudyard residents 16 years and older is 65 inches. The average weight is 153 pounds. Their average BMI (Body Mass Index) is 25. Eighteen percent of people living here are obese. Nineteen percent have ever been obese. Twenty two percent have ever tried to lose weight.

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Drug Use

Sixty eight percent of Rudyard residents have ever used marijuana or hashish. Eighteen percent of people living here have ever used cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin or methamphetamine. Eighteen percent have ever used any form of cocaine, such as powder, 'crack', 'free base', and coca paste.

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Diabetes

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

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Kidney Conditions-Urology

Rudyard 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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Health Insurance

Thirty two percent of people living in Rudyard are covered by health insurance or some other kind of health care plan.

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Dermatology

Thirty five percent of people living in Rudyard use sunscreen.

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Mental Health

Twenty three percent of Rudyard residents 18 years old and older have usually little interest or pleasure in doing things. Twenty one percent often feel down, depressed, or hopeless. Forty three percent of people living here have trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleep too much. Sixty six percent of people often feel tired or have little energy. Twenty four percent are bothered by poor appetite or overeating. Twenty one percent often feel badly about themselves, that they are a failure or have let themselves or their families down.

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Alcohol use

Hundred percent of people living in Rudyard have at least one alcoholic drink per month. People living here drink alcohol 2.8 days per month on average. They have 2.7 drinks per week. On average people living here have 5 or more drinks on 10 days a year.

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Sexual Behavior

Hundred percent of Rudyard 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. Eighty eight percent have ever performed oral sex on a woman. Fifty nine percent have ever had anal sex with a woman. Eight percent of males in Rudyard have ever had any kind of sex with a man, including oral or anal. Hundred percent of females have ever had vaginal sex with a man. Hundred percent have ever performed oral sex on a man. People in Rudyard 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 15 women. He has vaginal sex with 14 women. People living here were on average 18 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 4.2 men on average. They have had 2.9 anal sex partners in their lifetime. People in Rudyard were 15 years old on average when they first performed oral sex on a man. Eighteen percent of people use protection, like a condom or dental dam, while performing oral sex. The average person in Rudyard has vaginal or anal sex 107 times a year. Sixty eight percent have sex without using a condom. Forty one percent of men 18 years old and older are circumcised.

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Pesticide Use

Two percent use chemical products in their lawns or gardens to kill weeds.

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Sleep Disorders

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

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Smoking-Cigarette Use

Seventy one percent of Rudyard residents currently smoke cigarettes.

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Physical Activity

Nineteen percent of Rudyard 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 six 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. Fifty six 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 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 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 2.6 hours per day.

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Medical Conditions

Thirteen percent of people 16 years and older have ever been told by a doctor or other health care professional that they had psoriasis. Eighteen percent have trouble seeing, even when wearing glasses or contact lenses.

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Reproductive Health

Fifty percent of births in Rudyard were vaginal deliveries. Fifty percent of deliveries were cesarean. 100.0 percent of deliveries resulted in live births. Sixty seven percent of pregnancies resulted in a delivery. Sixty seven percent have ever taken birth control pills for any reason.

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Current Health Status

People living in Rudyard report their general health condition on average at 63 percent. Five percent of them donate blood. Excluding tests they have had as part of blood donations, 34 percent of Rudyard residents have ever had their blood tested for the AIDS virus infection. Four percent of people living in Rudyard are left-handed.

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Consumer Behavior

People in Rudyard spend $370 per month on average on food for their families at supermarkets or grocery stores. This is 12 percent of their income. The average family in Rudyard spends $71 on food at other stores monthly. This is four percent of their income. They spend $262 on eating out, including cafeterias at work or at school or on vending machines. This is nine percent of their income. They also spend $22 monthly on carried out or delivered food. This is two percent of their income.

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Audiometry

People living in Rudyard report their general condition of hearing on average at 91 percent. Ninety four 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. Forty five 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 four percent of people in Rudyard had off-work exposure to loud noise.

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Physical Functioning

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

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