The American diet may very well be broken, but that doesn't mean we're stuck with it. Packaged foods, limited access to fresh ingredients, and cheap processed options have led us into a health ...

Americans appear to be getting better at what they are putting on their plates, as a new study has shown that just 37% of Americans have a “poor diet,” down from 49%.

To get a glimpse of the overall healthiness of people’s diets, scientists used a rating system from the American Heart Association. The AHA’s ideal diet includes lots of fruits, vegetables ...

Most of the parents I interviewed — poor and affluent — wanted their kids to eat nutritious food and believed in the importance of a healthy diet. Advertisement ...

Poor nutrition is the leading cause of US illnesses, creating a growing burden on the nation’s economy, exacerbating health disparities and impacting national security, according to a white ...

Overall diet quality in the United States remains poor, said the lead author of the study, published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine.

A new study, published in Annals of Internal Medicine this week, found that between 1999 and 2020, “the proportion of U.S. adults with poor diet quality decreased from 48.8% to 37.4%,” an 11.4 ...

For example, the proportion of adults with poor diet quality decreased to 47.3% from 51.8% among people with lower income, to 43.0% from 50% among people with middle income and to 29.9% from 45.7% ...

In a release, Booker and Blunt Rochester pointed out that even though the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend at least 50% of a person's diet should be fruits and vegetables, less than 10% ...

Investing in our troops’ health is not a soft strategy, it’s a hard imperative. Just as we fund advanced weapons, we must fund precision nutrition. To feed the force is to fortify the nation.

Americans are eating more fish and shellfish — a positive shift for the national diet, but only a small one. The average adult ate 0.16 servings of seafood a day in 1999 and 2000 and 0.19 ...