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By Shereen Lehman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) â€" A new study of Americans’ eating habits finds that people are choosing more healthy foods and less of the unhealthy ones, overall, and consumption of trans fats has plummeted over a decade. “That increasing gap is a very big concern because it translates directly to suffering from heart disease, diabetes, cancers and also longevity, so it's a pretty serious concern,” Dr. Walter Willett told Reuters Health in an email. Willett’s team, whose findings are published in JAMA Internal Medicine, used information from almost 30,000 adults in the annual National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 1999 through 2010. They factored in age, race, education and economic status and scored the quality of people’s diets according to an Alternate Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) based on established links between specific foods and disease.