Background Diet quality is critically important to the prevention of many types of chronic
disease. The federal government provides recommendations for optimal diet quality through …

Abstract The Healthy Eating Index (HEI), a measure of diet quality, was updated to reflect the
2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the accompanying USDA Food Patterns. To …

An index that assesses the multidimensional components of the diet across the lifecycle is
useful in describing diet quality. The purpose of this study was to use the Healthy Eating …

The Healthy Eating Index‐2005 (HEI‐2005) has 12 components designed to measure diet
quality in terms of compliance with the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Mean HEI …

The Healthy Eating Index (HEI) is a measure of diet quality in terms of conformance with
federal dietary guidance. Publication of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans prompted …

Evaluation of time trends in dietary quality and their relation to disease burden provides
essential feedback for policy making. We used an index titled the Alternate Healthy Eating …

The US food system is primarily an economic enterprise, with far-reaching health,
environmental, and social effects. A key data source for evaluating the many effects of the …

Abstract Background The Healthy Eating Index (HEI), a diet quality index that measures
alignment with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, was updated with the 2015-2020 …

BACKGROUND: Every 5 years for the past several decades, the USDHHS and the US
Department of Agriculture have issued and updated the Dietary Guidelines for Americans …

Importance Many changes in the economy, policies related to nutrition, and food processing
have occurred within the United States since 2000, and the net effect on dietary quality is not …