ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine2014
The 18-month impact of special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children food package revisions on diets of recipient families.
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- Structural interventions that affect racial inequities and their impact on population health outcomes: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2022Pooled it
- Fruit and Vegetable Purchases and Consumption among WIC Participants after the 2009 WIC Food Package Revision: A Systematic Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2020Pooled it
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- Retaining traditionally hard to reach participants: Lessons learned from three childhood obesity studies.Contemporary clinical trials · 2015Trial
- From preschool to policy: A scoping review of recommended interventions for a systems approach to improve dietary intake in early childhood.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Article
- Consumption of the Food Groups with the Revised Benefits in the New WIC Food Package: A Scoping Review.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Methods Used to Evaluate the Health Effects of Social Policies: A Systematic Review.Current epidemiology reports · 2025Article
- Food security and diet quality in a racially diverse cohort of postpartum women in the USA.The British journal of nutrition · 2023Article
- WIC Participation and Dietary Quality among US Children: Impact of the 2009 Food Package Revision.Journal of hunger & environmental nutrition · 2022Article
- Associations between Governmental Policies to Improve the Nutritional Quality of Supermarket Purchases and Individual, Retailer, and Community Health Outcomes: An Integrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Review
- Main Factors Influencing Whole Grain Consumption in Children and Adults-A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2020Review
- Impact of the 2009 WIC Food Package Changes on Maternal Dietary Quality.Journal of hunger & environmental nutrition · 2020Article
- Usual Nutrient Intakes from the Diets of US Children by WIC Participation and Income: Findings from the Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (FITS) 2016.The Journal of nutrition · 2018Article
- Purchases Made with a Fruit and Vegetable Voucher in a Rural Mexican-Heritage Community.Journal of community health · 2017Article
- A realist review to explore how low-income pregnant women use food vouchers from the UK's Healthy Start programme.BMJ open · 2017Review
- Revised WIC Food Package and Children's Diet Quality.Pediatrics · 2016Article
- Predictors of Obesity in a Cohort of Children Enrolled in WIC as Infants and Retained to 3 Years of Age.Journal of community health · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundBeginning in 2009, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) revised its food packages and provided more whole grains, fruits, and vegetables and fewer foods with high saturated fat content. However, knowledge of the impact of this policy shift on the diets of WIC participants remains limited. PURPOSE: To examine the longer-term impact of the 2009 WIC food package change on nutrient and food group intake and overall diet quality among African American and Hispanic WIC child participants and their mothers/caregivers.
methodsIn this natural experiment, 24-hour dietary recalls were collected in the summer of 2009, immediately before WIC food package revisions occurred in Chicago IL and at 18 months following the food package change (winter/spring 2011). Generalized estimating equation models were used to compare dietary intake at these two time points. Data were analyzed in July 2013.
resultsEighteen months following the WIC food package revisions, significant decreases in total fat (p=0.002) and saturated fat (p=0.0004) and increases in dietary fiber (p=0.03) and overall diet quality (p=0.02) were observed among Hispanic children only. No significant changes in nutrient intake or diet quality were observed for any other group. The prevalence of reduced-fat milk intake significantly increased for African American and Hispanic children, whereas the prevalence of whole milk intake significantly decreased for all groups.
conclusionsPositive dietary changes were observed at 18 months post policy implementation, with the effects most pronounced among Hispanic children.
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