{"id":164,"date":"2008-06-06T18:15:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T16:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/wordpress\/report-major-trends-in-us-food-consumption-1970-2005\/"},"modified":"2015-08-11T11:35:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T15:35:34","slug":"report-major-trends-in-us-food-consumption-1970-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/report-major-trends-in-us-food-consumption-1970-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Major Trends in US Food Consumption, 1970 &#8211; 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ers.usda.gov\/publications\/eib-economic-information-bulletin\/eib33.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\">USDA report on trends in US Food Consumption over the period 1970 &#8211; 2005<\/a> was released in March.\u00a0 The conclusions are not good.\u00a0 As noted in the report:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;According to the National Center for Health Statistics, about two-thirds of U.S. adults in 2003-04 were either overweight or obese, compared with 47 percent in 1976-1980. The U.S. obesity rate among adults has more than doubled, from 15 percent in 1976-1980 to 32 percent in 2003-04. The extent of obesity has focused attention on what Americans have been eating. The main reason for this weight gain is the estimated increase in caloric intake without a corresponding increase in physical activity. More than 50 percent of U.S. adults are not physically active. Poor diets and sedentary lifestyles have been associated with diet-related chronic diseases in adults that include hypertension, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and certain kinds of cancer (HHS, 2005).&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Among the report highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Americans are eating more than double the recommended amount of refined grains per day while eating a third of the recommended amount of whole grains.<\/li>\n<li>Americans are eating more fruits\/veggies, but less than the recommended amounts.\u00a0 Of the five vegetable subgroups, starchy vegetables, particularly potatoes, dominated vegetable consumption, accounting for approximately a third of the total and slightly above the recommended level. Legumes had the lowest estimated consumption level. Overall, Americans consumed a limited variety of vegetables.<\/li>\n<li>Americans are\u00a0consuming fewer servings of\u00a0milk\/dairy products; although (high fat) cheese consumption rose.<\/li>\n<li>Americans consume\u00a0an average of\u00a032% of calories from added fats and oils (this figure does\u00a0not include naturally occurring fats from foods).\u00a0 Of the 2005 total, nearly 86 percent consisted of vegetable oils and related products, such as margarine, shortening, and cooking and salad oils. Animal fats, such as butter, lard, and edible tallow, made up the remaining 14 percent.<\/li>\n<li>Americans eat more than the recommended amounts from the meat\/eggs\/nuts food group.<\/li>\n<li>Americans consume an average of 30 teaspoons\/day of added sugars and sweeteners (30 teaspoons = 5\/8 of a cup)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other words, consumption of food in general is up&#8230;and a lot of that increase is due to energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods: added fats\/oils, added sugars, and refined grains.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The report really doesn&#8217;t tell us any info that we didn&#8217;t already know, but seeing some official figures is pretty sobering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest USDA report on trends in US Food Consumption over the period 1970 &#8211; 2005 was released in March.\u00a0 The conclusions are not good.\u00a0 As noted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,24],"tags":[498,808,1863,1388,1561,1714],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10119,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/10119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}