Census Bureau Releases 2010 Statistical Abstract Depicting the State of Our Nation: Healthy Living Highlights

Census Bureau Releases 2010 Statistical Abstract Depicting the State of Our Nation: Healthy Living Highlights

According to the U.S. Census Bureau's Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2010:

• There were more than 20,000 farms in 2007 engaged in organic production on more than 2.5 million acres. Sales of organically produced commodities totaled $1.7 billion, of which more than $1.1 billion were organic crops and $600 million organic livestock and poultry and poultry products. (Table 807).
• In 2007, the complementary and alternative medicine therapies most commonly used by U.S. adults in the past 12 months were nonvitamin, nonmineral and natural products (17.7 percent), deep breathing exercises (12.7 percent), meditation (9.4 percent), chiropractic or osteopathic manipulation (8.6 percent), massage (8.3 percent) and yoga (6.1 percent). (Table 161)



Source: http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/statab2006_2010.html
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