If you made good-for-you food choices over the past 24 hours, you're not the only one: Approximately 64 percent of Americans say they ate healthily "yesterday," according to a new Gallup poll.
For the survey, researchers conducted phone interviews with 1,947,144 adults between January 2 and December 29, 2013, asking whether they'd eaten healthy "all day" on the previous day. While 64 percent of the population might seem like a big chunk of people to say yes, keep this in mind: 2013's statistic is the lowest it’s been since Gallup first started posing this question in 2008. Researchers suspect this may be because rising food prices made it difficult for people to afford healthy groceries.
The Gallup poll also found that almost 58 percent of people said they consumed at least five servings of fresh fruits and vegetables for four or more days a week (the USDA recommends women ages 19-30 consume two-and-a-half cups of veggies and two cups of fruit daily). That stat has stayed about level with what it was in previous years.
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