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Percentage of Adolescents Who Ate Five or More Servings of Fruits and Vegetables Daily by County, Grades 9-12, New Mexico, 2017

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Why Is This Important?

Fruits and vegetables contain essential vitamins, minerals, fiber, and other compounds that may help prevent many chronic diseases. Compared with people who consume a diet with only small amounts of fruits and vegetables, those who eat more generous amounts as part of a healthful diet are likely to have reduced risk of chronic diseases, including stroke and perhaps other cardiovascular diseases, and certain cancers (1). Fruits and vegetables also help people to achieve and maintain a healthy weight, because they are relatively low in energy density (2). To promote health and prevent chronic diseases, the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend 2 cups of fruit per day for a standard 2,000 calorie diet, with recommendations based on an individual's age, gender, and activity level (3).

Percentage of Adolescents Who Ate Five or More Servings of Fruits and Vegetables Daily by County, Grades 9-12, New Mexico, 2017

    Definition

    Percentage of high school students who ate five or more servings of fruits or vegetables per day

    Data Notes

    Rates for Chaves County, Harding County, and Union County were supressed because of inadequate response rates from those counties. The NM rate was calculated from the standard CDC YRRS dataset and is consistent with the rates found on the CDC Website. The county rates were calculated from a special New Mexico dataset that has a larger survey sample size.

    Data Source

    New Mexico Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey, New Mexico Department of Health and Public Education Department.

    How the Measure is Calculated

    Numerator:Number of high school students who ate a total of five or more servings of fruits and vegetables per day
    Denominator:Number of students who responded to each of the questions about fruits or vegetables

    Health Topic Pages Related to: Nutrition - Adolescent Fruit and Vegetable Consumption

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    Medical literature can be queried at the PubMed website.

    Indicator Data Last Updated On 01/08/2019, Published on 01/08/2019
    Youth Risk and Resiliency Survey, Survey Section, Epidemiology and Response Division, New Mexico Department of Health and Coordinated School Health & Wellness Bureau, NM Public Education Department. Contact NMDOH, 1190 S. Saint Francis Drive, P.O. Box 26110, Santa Fe, NM, 87502. Telephone: (505) 476-1779.