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How Americans Rate Their Diet Quality: An Increasingly Realistic Perspective

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  • Gregory, Christian
  • Smith, Travis
  • Wendt, Minh

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Over the last 20 years, awareness of diet-related health concerns has become widespread in the United States as obesity, along with its associated human and financial costs, has increased. To estimate how this awareness affects Americans’ perceptions of their own diet quality over this period and the factors associated with self-assessed diet health, we examine data from both the 1989-91 Continuing Survey of Food Intakes of Individuals and the 2005-08 Flexible Consumer Behavior Survey module of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. We find, first, that Americans have become much less likely to rate their diets as “Excellent” or “Very Good” in terms of healthfulness, even though the healthfulness of the American diet has undergone little change over this period. Second, current self-ratings of diet are inversely related to the frequency of fastfood and food-away-from-home consumption and positively related to the frequency of sharing meals with family. In addition, self-ratings of diet are positively associated with household availability of dark green vegetables and low-fat milk and negatively associated with availability of sweetened soft drinks.

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  • Gregory, Christian & Smith, Travis & Wendt, Minh, 2011. "How Americans Rate Their Diet Quality: An Increasingly Realistic Perspective," Economic Information Bulletin 291943, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersib:291943
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.291943
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    1. Smith, Travis A. & Valizadeh, Pourya & Lin, Biing-Hwan & Coats, Ellen, 2019. "What is driving increases in dietary quality in the United States?," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 1-1.
    2. Volpe, Richard & Okrent, Abigail, 2012. "Assessing the Healthfulness of Consumers' Grocery Purchases," Economic Information Bulletin 262129, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    3. Gregory, Christian & Rahkovsky, Ilya & Anekwe, Tobenna D., 2014. "Consumers’ Use of Nutrition Information When Eating Out," Economic Information Bulletin 174796, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    4. Smith, Travis A. & Lin, Biing-Hwan & Coats, Ellen, 2015. "The Evolving Role of Food Sourced Outside the Home on Diets in the U.S.: 1977-2010," 2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California 205770, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    5. Dong, Zefeng & Jaenicke, Edward C. & Kuhns, Annemarie, 2018. "The Effects of Exogenous Changes in Food Environment on Households’ Healthfulness of Food Purchases," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 273910, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

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