According to the March 22, 2016 (HealthDay News), they ask:

 
"Do you get a moderate amount of exercise, eat right, keep from piling on fat and avoid smoking? Congratulations, you're among the 2.7 percent of Americans who do so, according to a new study."

A startling 97.3 percent of adults in United States do not have a healthy lifestyle.

The study looked at data on more than 4,700 people who took part in the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Survey. The researchers assessed how many people followed four general "principles of healthy living", a recommended diet, moderate exercise, not smoking and keeping body fat at recommended levels.  

"The behavior standards we were measuring for were pretty reasonable, not super high. We weren't looking for marathon runners," said study senior author Ellen Smit, an associate professor at the OSU College of Public Health and Human Sciences, in Corvallis.

The standards used in the study are normally advised by doctors and recommended to their patients.  Smit's team said. People who adhere to those four behaviors can help reduce their risk of many health problems.  Risk of Type 2 Diabetes, heart disease and cancer decrease if people eat healthy, exercise and don't smoke. 

In the study, 71 percent of the adults surveyed did not smoke, 38 percent ate a healthy diet, 10 percent had a normal body fat percentage and 46 percent got sufficient amounts of physical activity.

Sixteen percent had three of the healthy lifestyle behaviors, 37 percent had two, 34 percent had one and 11 percent had none.

They also found that it was more common for women to not smoke and eat healthy.  Unfortunately, women did not work out enough.  Mexican-Americans ate a healthier diet than blacks or white races.  

The study was conducted by researchers at Oregon State University, the University of Mississippi and the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga.

You body needs nutrients in order to work properly.  Not having nutrients put your body in stress mode and at risk of illness.  Eating healthy, working out, keeping stress levels down and getting body work help you be the best you.  

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The study was published March 21 in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings.