Child and Adult Care Food Program Aligning Dietary Guidance for All (2011) / Chapter Skim
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Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) is a federally sponsored program designed to provide healthy meals and snacks to children and adults receiving day care at participating family day care homes, traditional child care centers, at-risk afterschool care facilities, outside school hours care facilities, adult care facilities, and emergency shelters.
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of USDA asked the IOM's Food and Nutrition Board to make recommendations for CACFP meal requirements. This study augments the work done by the IOM to provide recommendations to revise the Nutrition Standards and Meal Requirements for the National School Lunch Program (NSLP)
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. Statement of Task Specifically, USDA requested that the IOM convene a panel of experts to • Review and assess the nutritional needs of the target populations based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the Dietary Reference Intakes, and • Use that review as a basis for recommended revisions to the meal requirements for the Child and Adult Care Food Programs.
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, the NSLP, and the SBP) and with recommendations for competitive foods offered or sold in schools proposed in the report Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools (IOM, 2007)
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Committee on Nutrition develops guidelines on the nutritional needs of infants, children, and adolescents. The AAP Committee works together with federal agencies including the HHS Food and Drug Administration, USDA, the HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the HHS National Institutes of Health, and the Canadian Paediatric Society to pursue advocacy opportunities that promote healthy dietary habits and provide technical assistance to facilitate relevant federal regulatory processes.
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Revised Regulations for WIC Food Packages New WIC regulations have revised the WIC food packages to supply a set of foods that should help reduce both inadequate and excessive nutrient intake and contribute to a dietary pattern consistent with the current Dietary Guidelines. The regulations are based largely on recommendations made in the IOM report WIC Food Packages: Time for a Change (IOM, 2006)
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The recommendations contained in School Meals, like those in the above-mentioned IOM reports relating to WIC and foods offered or sold in schools, focus on providing standards that are aligned with the current Dietary Guidelines and the DRIs, but in this case the focus is on complete meals. Concern About Childhood Obesity As discussed in Chapter 4, the prevalence of childhood obesity is much higher than it was when the current regulations for CACFP were adopted.
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2010. School Meals: Building Blocks for Healthy Children.
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2000. Building for the Future in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)
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