ATLANTA – Americans are still not very healthy, with around six in 10 citizens weighing too much and many more living unhealthy lifestyles, such as smoking, drinking heavily and being sedentary, HealthDay News reports.

A new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that Americans still make unhealthy choices that can trigger diabetes, heart disease and other chronic diseases. One positive finding is that approximately seven in 10 adults are sleeping sufficiently.

“Changes have not been enormous,” said Charlotte Schoenborn, author of the report and a health statistician for the CDC. “It's been a very, very slow process of changing awareness of personal choices for healthier ways of life. All of the health-related federal agencies, and a lot of nonfederal groups, are putting a lot of resources to make people aware of the effect they can have on their own health. This report is just designed to say where we are.”

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