Development and Evaluation of the Healthy Eating Index-2005 Technical Report

The authors gratefully acknowledge the contributions of Lisa Kahle, Information Management Services, Inc., for SAS® programming and data analysis; WenYen Juan, USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP), for producing the figures and creating the data for the Whole Fruit component; Thea Palmer Zimmerman, Westat, Inc., for coding the exemplary menus; Meredith Morrissette, National Cancer Institute (NCI), for table preparation; Molly Kretsch, USDA Agricultural Research Service; Richard Troiano, NCI; Pamela Haines, University of North Carolina; Eileen Kennedy, Tufts University; Laurence Freedman, Gertner Institute for Epidemiology; and Philip S. Kott, USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, for expert consultation; and the other members (in addition to the authors) of the 2005 Healthy Eating Index (HEI) Working Group: Patricia Britten, Andrea Carlson, Carole Davis, Eric Hentges, Hazel Hiza, WenYen Juan, and Mark Lino, CNPP; and Jay Hirschman and Patricia McKinney, USDA Food and Nutrition Service.