Review of WIC food packages : improving balance and choice : final report / Committee to Review WIC Food Packages, Food and Nutrition Board, Health and Medicine Division.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Committee to Review WIC Food Packages.

Food and Nutrition Board.

Health and Medicine Division.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food relief--United States.

Food relief.

Women--Nutrition--United States.

Women.

United States.

Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1,063 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, 2017.

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 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. In this third report, the committee provides its final analyses, recommendations, and the supporting rationale"-- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction and the process for revising the WIC food packages

The WIC program : changes since the last review and continuing challenges

Alignment of the current food packages with dietary guidance, special dietary needs, and cultural eating practices or food preferences

Nutrient and food group intakes of WIC participants

Nutrient and food group priorities for the WIC food packages

The revised food packages

Evaluation of cost

Sensitivity analysis for food package nutrient, food group, and cost models

How the revised food packages meet the criteria specified

The regulatory impact analysis (abridged)

Recommendations for implementation and research

Appendix A: Acronyms and abbreviations

Appendix B: Glossary

Appendix C: WIC food package regulation

Appendix D: Details of the Committee's information-gathering strategies

Appendix E: USDA-funded studies of the 2009 food package changes

Appendix F: Changes in the WIC food packages and program participation

Appendix G: Barriers to participation and redemption

Appendix H: Kosher and halal substitution options

Appendix I: Complementary feed: summary of information reviewed

Appendix J: Nutrient and food intake of WIC subgroups: analytical methods and results

Appendix K: Study design strategies for reducing the effects of selection bias in studies comparing WIC participants to others

Appendix L: Gap analysis

Appendix M: Behavioral approaches in WIC as a potential action

Appendix N: Comparison of current and revised food packages

Appendix O: Specific nutrient comparisons

Appendix P: Food specification detail

Appendix Q: Foods and food specifications that were reviewed, but not changed

Appendix R: Development of the food package nutrients and cost profiles

Appendix S: Sensitivity tests and results

Appendix T: Amounts of food groups and nutrients provided by the current, compared to the revised WIC food packages

Appendix U: The regulatory impact analysis (complete)

Appendix V: Committee biosketches

Index.

Notes:

"A report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine."

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 3, 2017).

ISBN:

9780309450195

0309450195

9780309450171

0309450179