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Nutrition and Healthy Eating

Goal: Improve health by promoting healthy eating and making nutritious foods available.

Many people in the United States don’t eat a healthy diet. Healthy People 2030 focuses on helping people get the recommended amounts of healthy foods — like fruits, vegetables, and whole grains — to reduce their risk for chronic diseases and improve their health.1 The Nutrition and Healthy Eating objectives also aim to help people get recommended amounts of key nutrients, like calcium and potassium.

People who eat too many unhealthy foods — like foods high in saturated fat and added sugars — are at increased risk for obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and other health problems. Strategies and interventions to help people choose healthy foods can help reduce their risk of chronic diseases and improve their overall health.

Some people don’t have the information they need to choose healthy foods. Other people don’t have access to healthy foods or can’t afford to buy enough food. Public health interventions that focus on helping everyone get healthy foods are key to reducing food insecurity and hunger and improving health.

Objective Status

  • 0 Target met or exceeded
  • 5 Improving
  • 7 Little or no detectable change
  • 7 Getting worse
  • 3 Baseline only
  • 3 Developmental
  • 2 Research

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References

1.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture. (2020). 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Retrieved from https://odphp.health.gov/our-work/nutrition-physical-activity/dietary-guidelines/current-dietary-guidelines