USDA Recommendations
USDA Recommendations
58 million american adults between
the ages of 20 and 74 are overweight...
USDA Dietary Guidelines Background:
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans
are released every five years by the USDA. With an ever-increasing
public awareness of nutrition, the new guidelines that
came out for the year 2000 address one of the most important
current world-wide health issues: epidemic occurrences
of obesity
According to a fact sheet released
from the White House:
One-third of non-elderly adults in
America are now overweight: Fifty-eight million American
adults ages 20 through 74 are overweight, and the number
of overweight Americans increased from 25 to 33 percent
between 1980 and 1991.
One in five children are at risk
of being overweight:
Ten percent of children are overweight
or obese. The number of overweight children has doubled
over the past 15 years, and 70 percent of overweight
children aged 10 to 13 will be overweight and obese
adults.
Most of this increase has taken place
in recent years; 10 percent of children, 4 to 5 years
of age, were overweight in 1988 through 1994, compared
with 5.8 percent in 1971 through 1974. Recent studies
indicate that this trend is associated with low levels
of physical activity rather than increased food consumption.
Obesity is linked to an increased
incidence of chronic disease:
Obesity is a risk factor for diseases
such as coronary heart disease, certain types of cancer,
stroke, and diabetes. Over $68 billion is spent each
year on the direct health care costs related to obesity,
representing 6 percent of the nation's health care expenditures
in 1999.
Almost 90 percent of Americans have
diets that need improvement:
The Healthy Eating Index shows that
88 percent of Americans have diets that are poor or
need improvement. Only 26 percent of people meet the
daily dietary recommendation for dairy products, and
less than 20 percent meet the daily recommendation for
fruits. In particular, teenagers and people with low
incomes tend to have lower quality diets.
Many illnesses can be prevented or
mediated through regular physical activity:
Regular physical activity reduces
the risk of developing some of the leading causes of
illness and death in the United States, including heart
disease, high blood pressure, colon cancer, and diabetes.
Physical activity has been demonstrated
to reduce blood pressure and symptoms of anxiety and
depression while maintaining healthy bones, and joints.
More than 60 percent of adults do
not engage in the recommended amount of physical activity,
and approximately 25 percent of adults are not physically
active at all.
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