Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Decade Dishes Up Dietary Changes

Hemlines have gone up and down a couple of times in the lastdecade and cars have gone from guzzlers to leaner, greener machines.But the biggest changes of all in the last 10 years have probablybeen in what we eat and how we think about food and nutrition.

The Tufts University Diet and Nutrition Letter has put togethera list of some of the milestones in our food forays in the lastdecade.

The average person ate 74 pounds of beef in 1983. That droppedto 64 pounds in 1991. Chicken consumption, on the other hand, wentfrom 51 pounds a year for the average American in 1983 to 66 poundsin 1991. Meanwhile, the number of Americans who consider themselvesvegetarians just …

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