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 The
Healthy Eating Index (HEI) is a
measure of diet quality that
assesses conformance to federal
dietary guidance. USDA’s primary
use of the HEI is to monitor the
diet quality of the U.S.
population and the low-income
subpopulation. For this purpose
the Center for Nutrition Policy
and Promotion (CNPP) uses the
data collected via 24-hour
recalls of dietary intake in
national surveys. The HEI is
also used to examine
relationships between diet and
health-related outcomes and
between diet cost and diet
quality, to determine the
effectiveness of nutrition
intervention programs, and to
assess the quality of food
assistance packages, menus, and
the US food supply. The HEI is a
scoring metric that can be
applied to any defined set of
foods, such as
previously-collected dietary
data, a defined menu, or a
market basket. The original HEI
was created by CNPP in 1995. It
was revised in 2006 by a federal
working group, led by CNPP with
members from the
National Cancer Institute
and the USDA Food and Nutrition
Service, to reflect the 2005
Dietary Guidelines for Americans
and updated in 2012 to reflect
the
2010 Dietary Guidelines for
Americans.
The HEI-2010 is described in
detail in an
article,
published in the April 2013
issue of the Journal of the
Academy of Nutrition and
Dietetics, and
summarized in a
fact sheet and a
slide
[PDF
version]. A report on
HEI-2010 population scores is
available below. A
SAS program for
calculating HEI-2010 scores is
available as well as
guidance for researchers. An evaluation
of the validity and reliability
of the HEI-2010 and additional
support information will be
forthcoming.
The HEI-2005 was also described
in a
fact sheet and in a
technical report on its
development and evaluation, and
in two articles published in the
November 2008 issue of the
Journal of the American Dietetic
Association (vol. 108, pages
1854 and 1896). Reports of
population scores, listed below,
are available as are support
files, including a documented
version of the SAS program and
Excel worksheet used to estimate
the scores and links to the
necessary databases. An article
on the population ratio method
for calculating HEI scores was
published in the September 2008
issue of the Journal of
Nutrition (vol. 138, page
1725).
Answers to Frequently Asked
Questions about the Healthy
Eating Index are available
here.
All files are PDFs unless
otherwise noted. To view PDF
files, you can download
Adobe Reader for free.
Healthy Eating Index-2010 Report
Healthy Eating Index-2005
Reports
Original Healthy Eating Index Reports
Last
Modified:
03/22/2013
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