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• Government programs that have achieved demonstrated suc cess in reducing both food insecurity and obesity, such as the School Breakfast Program (SBP) and the Child and Adult Care Food Program, offer lessons for much more widespread and effective programs.
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Schwartz went through these options one by one while pointing to the potential of further research to improve diets, prevent obesity, and reduce the stigma associated with weight. School Foods A variety of options exist for changing what students eat in educational institutions, including limiting competitive foods in schools, limiting unhealthful foods in child care, and otherwise altering what students eat when they are in schools.
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Marketing As part of the Child Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative, the food industry has pledged to decrease marketing to children of unhealthful foods. Unfortunately, evaluations by the Rudd Center have determined that marketing of fast food, despite the pledges of industry, has increased.
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Another option is to reduce the costs of healthful foods by subsidizing their purchase. Nutrient Levels Several food assistance programs have been promoting the consumption of more healthful foods such as fruits and vegetables.
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. Weight Stigma Schwartz raised the issue of weight stigma, which is an important part of the Rudd Center's work.
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FINDING THE SWEET SPOT IN GOVERNMENT FOOD PROGRAMS There are substantial opportunities ahead to examine existing, and adopt new, public strategies and policies that have positive impact both on obesity and on food insecurity, and in some cases both, said James Weill, president of the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) in Washington, DC.
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Another sweet spot appears to be in child care. Meals and snacks that children receive through the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)
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The presence of competitive foods also creates peer pressure and stigma for the federal food programs that drive students who can least afford it to purchase competitive foods instead of eating free or reduced-priced meals at school. Better regulation of competitive foods could be linked with research to examine the effects of this regulation on food insecurity as well as obesity.
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Congress is poised to mandate higher CACFP standards without any increase in reimbursement. For the child care program, such a step would raise the question of how to improve the nutritional value of meals and snacks while increasing the willingness of underfunded, community-based child care providers to offer the food program in family day care homes and centers.
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POLICY-DRIVEN RESEARCH California Food Policy Advocates is an organization that defines policy objectives and then identifies the kinds of research that will support those objectives, said the organization's Executive Director Kenneth Hecht. It works on the assumption that federal food programs can prevent hunger and food insecurity, even if the link with obesity and food insecurity is not clear.
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It is easier to focus on obesity prevention in schools that contain many children and are unified institutions. Yet child care is extremely fragmented, which makes obesity prevention initiatives difficult for preschool children.
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The schools being built today in California typically do not have places to cook, eat, or drink water. California Food Policy Advocates has been working on an idea called scratch cooking, which Hecht described as "a movement toward real food." How can schools be supported to have fresh food that is grown and prepared locally?
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The substitution of EBT (electronic benefit transfer) cards for food stamp coupons has made one's participation in the program much less visible, which has reduced the stigma associated with using the coupons and thus removed that barrier to people participating in the program.
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2010. School meals: Building blocks for healthy children.
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