{"id":1199,"date":"2013-02-21T13:06:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T16:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2013-02-21T13:06:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T16:06:57","slug":"trends-in-the-nutrition-of-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2013\/02\/21\/1199\/","title":{"rendered":"Trends in the Nutrition of Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey put out a report on the energy intake for children and aged 2-19 from 1999-2000 through 2009-2010.\u00a0 The report,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db113.pdf\"><em> Trends in Intake of Energy and Macronutrients in Children and adolescents From 1999-2000 Through 2009-2010<\/em><\/a>, highlights trends in energy and macronutrients among U.S. children presented by sex, age group, and race and ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p>Key findings from the report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Caloric intakes for most of the age groups decreased between 1999-2000 and 2009-2010.<\/li>\n<li>The percentage of total kilocalories from protein generally increased for children and adolescents except for non-Hispanic black girls.<\/li>\n<li>The percentage of total kilocalories from carbohydrate decreased for non-Hispanic white boys and girls and for non-Hispanic black boys.<\/li>\n<li>The percentage of total kilocalories from total fat or saturated fat for children and adolescents changed very little.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db113_fig02.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" title=\"Mean macronutrient intake for children and adolescents aged 2\u201319 years, by sex, 1999\u20132010\" alt=\"Mean macronutrient intake for children and adolescents aged 2\u201319 years, by sex, 1999\u20132010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db113_fig02.png\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey put out a report on the energy intake for children and aged 2-19 from 1999-2000 through 2009-2010.\u00a0 The report, Trends in Intake of Energy and Macronutrients in Children and adolescents From 1999-2000 Through 2009-2010, highlights trends in energy and macronutrients among U.S. children presented by sex, age group,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14289],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}