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Executive Summary
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... The WIC Program provides three main benefits: supplemental foods, nutrition education, and referrals to health and social services. WIC food packages provide supplemental foods but the proportion of the total diet that is supplied through the package varies by participant category (see Chapter 1)
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... In Phase I, summarized in this preliminary report, the Committee's specific tasks are to review nutritional needs of the population subgroups participating in the WIC program using scientific methods summarized in the Dietary Reference Intake reports, assess supplemental nutrition needs of these subgroups, and propose priority nutrients and general nutrition recommendations for the WIC program. In Phase II, the Committee will apply the findings of this assessment to develop recommendations for specific changes to the WIC food packages.
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... · Adolescent and adult women of reproductive age: sodium, food energy, and total fat intake as a percentage of food energy. FOOD INTAKE OF WIC-ELIGIBLE POPULATIONS The Dietary Guidelines for Americans provide science-based advice to promote health and to reduce risk for major chronic diseases through diet and physical activity.
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... For example, juice is by far the major form of food ingested from the fruit group but only a few select juices are consumed on a regular basis. Priorities for the revised WIC food packages include improving the contribution of the package to an overall dietary pattern that is consistent with the Dietary Guidelines (emphasizing the vegetable group for children, emphasizing the fruit and dairy groups for women, limiting the amount of added sugars, saturated fat, cholesterol, and trans fatty acids)
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... PROPOSED PRIORITY NUTRIENTS AND FOOD GROUPS FOR THE WIC FOOD PACKAGES The Committee considered the results from each type of analysis (analyses of nutrient intakes of WIC-eligible populations, analyses of food intake of WIC-eligible populations, and consideration of nutrition-related health risks and outcomes in the WIC population)
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... However, the recommendation to limit trans fatty acids from processed foods in the diet is presumed to apply to all individuals regardless of age.
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... The goal is to propose food packages that improve the health of the WIC population with minimal impact on costs, vendors, and WIC agencies. The identification of these proposed priority nutrients and food groups and these proposed criteria represents the first phase in the Committee's two phase task of recommending specific changes to the food packages.
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