{"id":5536,"date":"2021-03-10T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5536"},"modified":"2021-03-10T10:00:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T15:00:51","slug":"national-nutrition-month-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/03\/10\/5536\/","title":{"rendered":"National Nutrition Month 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5539\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/fruits.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/>March is National Nutrition Month.\u00a0 The latest NCHS data shows that obesity <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/hestat\/obesity-adult-17-18\/obesity-adult.htm\">estimates<\/a> among adults aged 20 and over have almost doubled from 22.9% in 1988-1994 to 42.4% in 2017-2018.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately three-quarters of children and adolescents aged 2\u201319 (75.3%) and more than two-thirds (67.3%) of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db397.htm\">adults<\/a> aged 20 and over consumed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db391.htm\">fruit<\/a> on a given day.\u00a0 Almost 95% of adults and more than 90% of children and adolescents aged 2-19 consumed any vegetables on a given day.<\/p>\n<p>17.1% of adults aged 20 and over are on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db389.htm\">special diet<\/a> on a given day and more than half (57.6%) used any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db399.htm\">dietary supplement<\/a> in the past 30 days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db376.htm\">Water<\/a> accounts for more than half of total nonalcoholic beverage consumption (51.2%) among U.S. adults.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about NCHS, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on NHANES, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhanes.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhanes.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March is National Nutrition Month.\u00a0 The latest NCHS data shows that obesity estimates among adults aged 20 and over have almost doubled from 22.9% in 1988-1994 to 42.4% in 2017-2018. Approximately three-quarters of children and adolescents aged 2\u201319 (75.3%) and more than two-thirds (67.3%) of adults aged 20 and over consumed fruit on a given<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536"}],"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=5536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}