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- Americans' diets have remained largely unchanged since 1999, according to a new study.
- Meals remain high in processed foods that can increase a person's risk of disease.
- Ditching sugary drinks and eating two fewer processed meals a week could help.
Americans are eating healthier than in previous years, but they still have a long way to go, according to a researcher who studies food as medicine.
Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, director of the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University in Boston, co-authored a study on the quality of nearly 52,000 American adults' diets between 1999 and 2020. The results were published online Tuesday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.