How healthy do you think Americans are? According to the American Heart Association, very few of us are free of risk factors for heart disease, a growing medical concern that's costing everyone.

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According to cardiologist Sacco, advanced medicine has allowed more people to live with heart disease. While managing the disease has improved, preventing it has not.

"We spend a big chunk on taking care of people who have heart disease. Treating them with medications. Giving them angioplasty. We are all concerned about the health care budget and one of the ways we neglect the budget is to do the things we can do from getting sick in the first place," Sacco said. "We call it the obesity epidemic but the trend toward increased weight, high salt and high fat intake over time. The fact that we are more sedentary than we used to be are all factors that have really increased the overall risk profile of the U.S."

The American Heart Association reports even though less people are smoking and cholesterol levels have improved, less than five percent of Americans are free of risk factors for heart disease, meaning more people have developed high blood pressure, diabetes and have become overweight or obese.

And when it comes to kids, the news isn't looking so good. According to researchers at Harvard's Medical School, of the five percent of Americans who are thought to be risk free from heart disease, they didn't take into consideration the growing epidemic of childhood obesity.

Less exercise and more processed foods are not helping children. Reversing the trend toward prevention is a challenge.

"The hardest thing to change is behavior. The idea of having a pill that is effective for treating high blood pressure is great but wouldn't it be nice to have it be more emphasis on not getting the high blood pressure in the first place," Sacco said.