America's Eating Habits: Changes and Consequences

by Elizabeth Frazão

Individual chapters in this book provide different perspectives on the nutrition problem in the United States: what are the economic costs associated with unhealthy eating patterns; how do dietary patterns compare with dietary recommendations; how do national income and prices, advertising, health claims, and trends in eating away from home affect nutrient intake; how much do people know about nutrition and how does nutrition knowledge and attitudes affect intake of fats and cholesterol; how do different government programs and regulations influence food expenditures and consumption; what are some public and private efforts to improve healthy eating; and what are potential impacts of healthier eating on domestic agriculture.

Keywords: Diet, nutrition, health, eating patterns, nutrition education, nutrition knowledge, dietary guidelines, food guide pyramid, food supply, food consumption, food assistance programs, school lunch, food away from home, advertising, health claims, nutrition labeling, agriculture, economic costs, Healthy Eating Index, Healthy People 2000

In this publication...

• Entire Report
• Abstract
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• Introduction: On the Road to Better Nutrition
• High Costs Of Poor Eating Patterns In the United States
• Dietary Recommendations and How They Have Changed Over Time
• How Current Diets Stack Up: Comparison With Dietary Guidelines
• A Comparison of the U.S. Food Supply With the Food Guide Pyramid Recommendations
• Diet Quality Of Americans: Healthy Eating Index
• American Diets and Year 2000 Goals
• Trends in the U.S. Food Supply, 1970-97
• Role of National Income and Prices
• Food Advertising in the United States
• Advertising and What We Eat
• Health Claims in Food Advertising and Labeling
• Nutrient Contribution of Food Away From Home
• What People Know and Do Not Know About Nutrition
• Role of Demographics, Knowledge, and Attitudes
• Who Knew? Perception and Reality of Cholesterol in Our Diets
• Dietary Impacts of Food Assistance Programs
• How Government Policies and Regulations Can Affect Dietary Choices
• National School Lunch and School Breakfast Program Reforms Policy Development and Economic Impacts
• Accelerating the Trend Toward Healthy Eating
• Moving Toward the Food Guide Pyramid: Implications for U.S. Agriculture
• Appendix Tables
• Index