Healthy People 2010 Goal Used in Modeling

19-5.  Increase the proportion of persons aged 2 years and older who consume at least two daily servings of fruit.

• Target: 75 percent.
• Baseline: 28 percent of persons aged 2 years and older consumed at least two daily servings of fruit in 1994–96 (age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population).
• Target setting method: Better than the best.
• Data source: Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII) (2-day average), USDA.
• Reference: Healthy People 2010 Operational Definition

Rather than modeling fruit and vegetable consumption separately, we combined this objective (for eating fruit) with the following objective (for eating vegetables) and came up with “consumption of at least 5 servings of fruits or vegetables daily.” We assumed that the HP 2010 target for this hybrid target would be the lesser of the two targets, or 50%.

19-6.  Increase the proportion of persons aged 2 years and older who consume at least three daily servings of vegetables, with at least one-third being dark green or orange vegetables.

• Target: 50 percent.
• Baseline: 3 percent of persons aged 2 years and older consumed at least three daily servings of vegetables, with at least one-third of these servings being dark green or orange vegetables in 1994–96 (age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population).
• Target setting method: Better than the best.
• Data source: Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII) (2-day average), USDA.
• Reference: Healthy People 2010 Operational Definition

See commentary above. This objective was combined with the previous one to become “consumption of at least 5 servings of fruits or vegetables daily.”