TY - CHAP
T1 - Review of WIC Food Packages
T2 - Proposed Framework for Revisions: Interim Report (2016)
AU - Committee to Review WIC Food Packages
AU - Food and Nutrition Board
AU - Institute of Medicine
AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
AU - Rasmussen, Kathleen M.
AU - Latulippe, Marie E.
AU - Yaktine, Ann L.
AU - Whaley, Shannon E.
AU - Baker, Susan S.
AU - Bitler, Marianne P.
AU - Brannon, Patsy M.
AU - Carriquiry, Alicia L.
AU - Davis, David E.
AU - Fox, Mary Kay
AU - Hatfield, Tamera J.
AU - Jensen, Helen H.
AU - Johnson, Rachel K.
AU - Odoms-Young, Angela
AU - Pérez-Escamilla, Rafael
AU - Ross, A. Catharine
AU - Russell-Tucker, Charlene
AU - Chung, Mei
AU - Harrison, Gail G.
AU - Kirlin, John A.
AU - Murphy, Suzanne P.
AU - Quirk, Meghan E.
AU - Chu, Bernice
AU - Vorosmarti, Alice
AU - Saeed, Ambar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2016 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - 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 of 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. This, the second report of this series, provides a summary of the work of phase I of the study, and serves as the analytical underpinning for phase II in which the committee will report its final conclusions and recommendations.
AB - 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 of 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. This, the second report of this series, provides a summary of the work of phase I of the study, and serves as the analytical underpinning for phase II in which the committee will report its final conclusions and recommendations.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105030314829
U2 - 10.17226/21832
DO - 10.17226/21832
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:105030314829
SN - 9780309380003
SP - 1
EP - 352
BT - Coresource 4
PB - National Academies Press
ER -