2ft- Lnncastor Farming. Saturday. July 18.1970
Only 50% of Americans Have Good Diets, USDA
How well fid .no Ahum icons?
A notional suivcy by the U S
Pop,n I incut of \gi icultui c nidi
c.ilos th.it only half of the 15 000
families studied had diets i.ded
••■jood " \houl one in five fam
ilies oi 21 pii cent had diets
jaled "pool
Calcium. M’.amm \, and vita
min C wi’ie the nutnents most
often loimd below lecommended
dietaiy iillowanccs accoiding to
Di Daniel \ Swope of Hu Ami
celtuial Rescaich Semce, USD \
Di Swope lepoilid the findini's
at a lecent College of Agmul
tui e seminal at Penns\ h aiua
Slate UniM’isity
• Tlu 1 sui\e\ suquests lli.it mi
muon can bo impioved thiough
urn cased ute of milk and dan >
pioducts vegetables, and funts
This is especially tine foi meet
ing the iccommended allowantes
foi calcium, vitamin A. and vita
nun C, Di Swope staled
He said diets lated “good had
nutueiits meeting fully, 01 ex
cceding, iccommended dietaiv
allowances set by the Food and
Autntion Boa id of the National
Reaseaich Council Diets i.nted
pool ’ pi o\ ided less than tvvo
thuds of the iccommended
d’etaiy allowance foi one 01
moie of seven nutuents studied
A suney made 10 yeais ea'liei
indicated that 60 pei cent of the
families had " good” diets—com
paied with 50 pei cent foi the
most iccent study Di Swope is
chief of the Food Consumption
Bianch of the Agncultuial Re
seaich Seivice, USDA
Speaking befoie a seminal in
the depaitment of agncultuial
economics and imal sociology
at Penn State, he said adequate
income, alone, does not guaian
tec good diets Among house
holds With incomes of 510,000
ard ovei nine pei cent had pool
diets
This suggests the e may be a
need to explain nutntion educa
tion e{foils at all income levels
Oi pei haps theie is simply a
lack of motivation to select the
most nutntious foods,” Di
Swope obseived
Diets of females, geneially
wtie not as good as those of
males Adolescent gills and wo
men fiom ages 9 thiough 54
aveiaged below the lecom
mended allowances loi calcium,
non, and thiamine Olclci men
and women, especially those
aged 75 and above, weie low in
c.ilcium, nboflavin and vitamin
A Infants and childien undei
age six weie below the iccom
mended levels foi non
Males in the suivey consumed
moie milk geneially than did
females This i eduction in milk
consumption was obsei ved
among gills aged 9 to 11 and
continued steadily downwaid
thiough the 35 to 54 age gioup
of women This was linked with
diets being at least 20 pei cent
below the iccommended allow
ances foi calcium
The findings undei scoie the
reed foi educating people about
the food sou ices of calcium, pnn
cipally milk and milk pioducts
The need to include these in the
ci et is evident he aflnmed
Foi both males and females,
the use of bevei ages olhei than
milk and imccs mostly soft
d'inks and codec inueased
alrei ages 9 to 11 Especially for
gals these bevuages seemed to
of! set the use ol milk
A pnnciple goal of pei iodic
LSD A suiveys of food consump
tion is to develop and distubute
infoimalion to assist in impiov
ing diets All regions of the con
tinental United States have been
included in the suiveys.
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