Another 25 percent report eating three meals a day as well as a snack or two. The rest eat other combinations of meals and non-meals. According to research done by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, by the year 2005, a majority of Americans will have a very limited range of cooking skills and will have to look back two generations to identify an ancestor that had broad cooking skills and abilities. For example, in a move toward vertical integration, DuPont has purchased Ralston Purina's Protein Technologies International , allowing DuPont to process the soybeans that emerge from its genetic engineering research. The CDC surveyed a nationally representative sample of more than 17,000 adults in 1995.
Smoking is more common among men and adults living below the poverty line.
Almost 20,000 Americans died in alcohol-related car accidents in 1996.