State Nutrition Education and Training Program coordinators can help schools identify the most appropriate nutrition education curricula and materials. 5000 American Heart Association 7272 Greenville Ave. In 1990, CDC established the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System to help monitor progress in attaining national health and education objectives by periodically measuring the prevalence of behaviors in six health risk categories. These behaviors, which are usually established during youth, contribute to the leading causes of death and disease in the United States.
Dietary behaviors are one of the six health risk categories.
The specific dietary behaviors and attitudes monitored by the YRBS include consumption of fruits and vegetables, consumption of foods high in fat, perceptions of body weight, and attempted weight loss and weight-loss techniques used. The YRBS also obtains information about specific physical activity behaviors. The survey was conducted in all states and in a nationally representative sample of districts. The study also included on-site, structured interviews with school principals, health education teachers, physical education teachers, school food service directors, school nurses, counselors, and other personnel in a nationally representative sample of middle schools and high schools. This list is not intended to be comprehensive.