Title: How Much Time Do Americans Spend Eating? | USDA
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Content: One example is Geographic Differences in the Relative Price of Healthy Foods, http://ers.usda.gov/Publications/EIB78/
Karen Hamrick
Dec 02, 2011
@Abe Schreier—Thanks for your questions. No, we do not have estimates of how much time an average person spends eating/drinking over a lifetime. Individuals may change their eating patterns as they age, and also Americans patterns of eating and food preparation has changed over time as well. So, with our data for 2006-08 we did not estimate time spent eating/drinking over an individual’s lifetime. However, the topic of changing eating patterns over one’s lifetime is an interesting one. Karen Hamrick
Dec 02, 2011
@Abe Schreier—Yes, there are differences in time spent eating/drinking by various demographic and socioeconomic groups. In particular, individuals age 65 and over spent considerably more time in primary eating and drinking than other age groups, and less time in secondary eating and secondary drinking. Those with household income greater than 185 percent of the poverty threshold spent more time in all eating/drinking activities than those with incomes below 184 percent. Those in households participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly the Food Stamp Program) spent less time in primary eating and drinking than individuals in income-eligible nonparticipating households. For more information, see How Much Time Do Americans Spent on Food?,