U.S. adults made modest improvements in their diets in recent years but still eat too many low-quality carbohydrates and too much saturated fat.
It’s been nearly two decades since the nation’s nutrition experts disavowed their disastrous advice to shun dietary fat and urged Americans to focus instead on whole grains, nuts and healthful fats. And new research shows we’ve been listening — a little bit.
, a nationally representative cross-section of American adults answered detailed questions about everything they had eaten in the previous 24 hours. Roughly 44,000 Americans ages 20 and up participated in one of the surveys.The survey data show that at least some Americans have turned away from the nutrition establishment’s ill-fated view that dietary fat posed the greatest risk to human health.
Make no mistake, however: We are still a country that loves to wash down its cheeseburgers and French fries with a sugary soft drink, then reward ourselves with cookies. On the plus side, the proportion of our daily energy intake from carbohydrates deemed to be of “low-quality” sank from 45.1% in 1999 to 41.8% in 2016. Meanwhile, the proportion of Americans’ average calorie intake represented by “high-quality” carbs, including whole grains and fresh fruits and vegetables, increased from 7.4% to 8.7% over the same period.The findings show differences among racial and ethnic groups too. Non-Latino whites consume more alcohol, pizza and fast-food sandwiches .
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