15 Jul 2024 --- Researchers call for a “new prioritization of nutrition security” to achieve health equity and overcome nutritional disparities. Although diet quality improved “modestly” among US adults between 1999 and 2020, they caution that the proportion with poor diet quality remains high. Moreover, they note that dietary disparities persist and, in some cases, worsen. For example, the proportion of people with poor nutritional quality decreased from 48.8% to 36.7%, but this share decreased at a much lower rate among individuals with a lower income, from 51.8% to 47.3%.
