Longitudinal analyses showed a decrease of the mean healthy (−1.12, se 0.12) and unhealthy (−0.48, se 0.16) diet scores.
In Depth: America's 10 Unhealthiest States.
Responses were dichotomized into 0 to 13 (infrequent) and 14 to 30 (frequent) unhealthy days [ 14, 13].
Regularly, fine particle readings exceed 100 ("Unhealthy") or 200 ("Very Unhealthy").
Residents of Kentucky and Nevada felt the worst, with 6.3 unhealthy days a month.
Specifically, 107 unhealthy items were sold on average, versus 149 and 154 for the summer and no-sign conditions, respectively.
It was at 169, "unhealthy" by American standards and several times the World Health Organization's recommended daily level.
People without high school diplomas reported 7.2 unhealthy days a month, high school graduates 5.3 days and college graduates four days.
However, people living in the least populous areas -- fewer than 25,000 residents -- were almost as sick as their urban counterparts, with 5.4 unhealthy days a month.
The large high intensity fire in this area created the highest short term impacts (AQI unhealthy for 4 h and very unhealthy for 1 h), 11 unhealthy for sensitive days, and produced the only annual value (43.9 μg m−3) over the NAAQS 98th percentile for PM2.5 (35 μg m−3).
Think, too, what it must be like for their parents, who must keep every edible locked away and severely restrict the daily diets of their children lest they balloon to 400 unhealthy pounds.
