ATLANTA — Fewer than a third of U.S. adults eat the amount of fruits and vegetables the government recommends, a trend that has remained steady for more than a decade, health officials said Thursday. That’s ‘well below’ the government’s goal of getting 75 percent of Americans to eat two servings of fruits and having half of the population consume three servings of vegetables each day by 2010, said Dr. Larry Cohen of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The diet survey, part of a federal health survey of every state, is based on responses from 305,000 adults in 2005. It indicates the country is only about halfway toward meeting its healthful- eating goal three years from now. ‘We’re really concerned with the lack of success in meeting these national goals,’ said Cohen, who works in CDC’s nutrition and physical activity division. The rate of fruit and vegetable consumption has remained unchanged since 1994, but health officials said the goal is within reach. ‘We have more work to do over the next few years,’ said spokeswoman Rachel Ciccarone. Specifically, the survey showed that 27 percent of adults ate vegetables three times a day, […]