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).
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
Community Health Resources and Links
- Healthy People 2030 Website
- The Guide to Community Preventive Services
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
- County Health Rankings
- Kaiser Family Foundation's StateHealthFacts
Medical literature can be queried at the PubMed website.