This week, Dr. Bill Dietz, Chair of the Redstone Global Center for Prevention and Wellness, published a new commentary in Pediatrics exploring the connections between childhood obesity and recent changes to federal nutrition programs. Dietz notes, “the reductions in the prevalence of childhood obesity achieved by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA) and the changes in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) food package have not been widely recognized,” and explores the implications of increased food quality to improved diets and reductions in the prevalence of obesity in the most vulnerable youth served by these programs.
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