{"id":7025,"date":"2020-11-03T14:30:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T19:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5285"},"modified":"2020-11-03T14:30:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T19:30:21","slug":"special-diets-among-adults-united-states-2015-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/11\/03\/7025\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Diets Among Adults: United States, 2015\u20132018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db389.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5288 size-medium\" style=\"border:1px solid #000000\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/db389_cover.png?w=218\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>A new NCHS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db389.htm\">report<\/a>\u00a0 released today shows the percentage of U.S. adults who, on a given day, were on any special diet and specific types of special diets in 2015\u20132018 and trends from 2007\u20132008 through 2017\u20132018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Findings:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2015\u20132018, 17.1% of U.S. adults aged 20 and over were on a special diet on a given day.<\/li>\n<li>More women were on a special diet than men, and more adults aged 40\u201359 and 60 and over were on a special diet than adults aged 20\u201339.<\/li>\n<li>More non-Hispanic white adults (17.8%) were on a special diet than non-Hispanic black (14.7%) and non-Hispanic Asian (14.9%) adults.<\/li>\n<li>The most common type of special diet reported among all adults was a weight loss or low-calorie diet.<\/li>\n<li>From 2007\u20132008 through 2017\u20132018, the percentage of adults on any special diet, weight loss or low-calorie diets, and low carbohydrate diets increased, while the percentage of adults on low-fat or low-cholesterol diets decreased.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new NCHS report\u00a0 released today shows the percentage of U.S. adults who, on a given day, were on any special diet and specific types of special diets in 2015\u20132018 and trends from 2007\u20132008 through 2017\u20132018. Key Findings:\u00a0 In 2015\u20132018, 17.1% of U.S. adults aged 20 and over were on a special diet on a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62268,62277,50899],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025"}],"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=7025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}