Review of WIC food packages : improving balance and choice : final report

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Review of WIC food packages : improving balance and choice : final report

Title remainder

improving balance and choice : final report

Statement of responsibility

Committee to Review WIC Food Packages, Food and Nutrition Board, Health and Medicine Division ; a report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine

Title variation

WIC food packages:

Title variation remainder

improving balance and choice

Creator

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.), Committee to Review WIC Food Packages

Author

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.), Committee to Review WIC Food Packages

Subject

• Nutrition
• Infant
• Food -- Labeling
• United States
• Food relief
• Nutritive Value
• Children -- Nutrition
• Women -- Nutrition
• Food -- Labeling
• Women -- United States -- Nutrition
• Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (U.S.)
• Food relief -- United States
• Program Evaluation
• Pregnancy
• United States
• Child
• Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (U.S.)
• Children -- Nutrition -- United States
• Food Assistance
• Mothers
• Nutrition

Language

eng

Summary

"The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) began 40 years ago as a pilot program and has since grown to serve over 8 million pregnant women, and mothers and their infants and young children. Today the program serves more than a quarter of the pregnant women and half of the infants in the United States, at an annual cost of about $6.2 billion. Through its contribution to the nutritional needs of pregnant, breastfeeding, and post-partum women; infants; and children under 5 years of age; this federally supported nutrition assistance program is integral to meeting national nutrition policy goals for a significant portion of the U.S. population. To assure the continued success of the WIC, Congress mandated that the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reevaluate the program's food packages every 10 years. In 2014, the USDA asked the Institute of Medicine to undertake this reevaluation to ensure continued alignment with the goals of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. In this third report, the committee provides its final analyses, recommendations, and the supporting rationale"--Publisher's description

Cataloging source

CUS

Funding information

This activity was supported by Grant No. AG-3198-D-14-0050 0001-005 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HV696.F6

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

WA 310.AA1