1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Promoting Healthier Lifelong Improvements in Food and Exercise Act of 2020 or the LIFE Act . 2. Findings The Congress finds as follows: (1) Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that in 2015–2016 close to 40 percent of adults in the United States were obese and 71.6 percent of Americans were overweight or obese. Approximately 7.7 percent of adults were severely obese. (2) Data from two National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys shows that the prevalence of obesity among adults increased from 15.0 percent in 1976–1980 to 39.8 percent in 2015–2016. (3) In 2015–2016, the prevalence of obesity among youth aged 2–19 was 18.5 percent and affected approximately 13,700,000 children and adolescents. (4) The percentage of children and adolescents who are obese has increased since 1971–1974, when the percentage was 5 percent. (5) In 2018, only 53.3 percent of United States adults aged 18–64 met the 2008 Federal guidelines for aerobic activity. The 2008 Federal Physical Activity Guidelines for American Adults recommends 150 minutes a week of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity or 75 minutes a week of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity. (6) The rising rates of obesity portend greater disease and health conditions, including hypertension, high total cholesterol, Type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease, osteoporosis, sleep apnea, respiratory problems, and some cancers, such as endometrial, breast, and colon cancer. (7) Many underlying factors have been linked to the increase in obesity, such as increasing portion sizes, eating out more often, increased consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks, increasing television, computer, and electronic gaming time, changing labor markets, and fear of crime, which prevents outdoor exercise. (8) Chronic diseases account for 1,700,000, or 70 percent, of all deaths in the United States each year. Although chronic diseases are among the most common and costly health