Nutrition Database/Analysis Tool

19-1 Increase the proportion of adults who are at a healthy weight.

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

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 deep yellow vegetables.

19-8 Increase the proportion of persons aged 2 years and older who consume less than 10 percent of calories from saturated fat.

19-10 Increase the proportion of persons aged 2 years and older who consume 2,400 mg or less of sodium daily.

12-10 Increase the proportion of adults with high blood pressure whose blood pressure is under control.

12-11 Increase the proportion of adults with high blood pressure who are taking action (for example losing weight, increasing physical activity, and reducing sodium intake) to help control their blood pressure.

12-14 Reduce the proportion of adults with high total blood cholesterol levels.

12-15 Increase the proportion of adults who have their blood cholesterol checked within the preceding 5 years.

Prevent Development of Risk Factors

Through population and clinical approaches, increase the percentage of children and adults who engage in heart-healthy behaviors to prevent the development of cardiovascular disease risk factors.

Detect and Treat Risk Factors

Increase the percentage of patients who have their CVD risk factors detected and who implement lifestyle and/or pharmacologic intervention and successfully control their blood pressure and cholesterol levels and weight to prevent the development of CVD.

1. Complete the development of the of NHLBI nutrition database/analysis program.

2. Integrate NHLBI nutrition database and existing nutrition analysis tools including the ”menu planner” and “create a diet”.

3. Market the NHLBI nutrition database tools to consumers, patients, and health care providers.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the nation’s most common cause of death among women and men of all ethnic and racial groups. Good nutrition can help reduce occurrence of cardiovascular disease as well as the major risk factors including obesity, high blood pressure, and high blood cholesterol.

The purpose of this project is to develop a nutrition database tool. This tool will enable NHLBI web visitors to analyze their diet and compare it to heart healthy eating patterns aimed at reducing or preventing overweight/ obesity, high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol. The nutrient database will also support existing NHLBI web-based nutrition analysis tools that promote the awareness of heart-healthy eating.