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Appendix E: USDA-Funded Studies of the 2009 Food Package Changes
Pages 521-534

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From page 521...
... Appendix E USDA-Funded Studies of the 2009 Food Package Changes 521
From page 522...
... Program for Women, Infants, and Children Andreyeva et al., 2011: USDA Evaluate the impact of the 252 (all) convenience stores Strong evidence that stores Changes in access to healthy WIC food package revisions and non-chain grocery stores responded to the food package foods after implementation using multiple determinants of in 5 towns of Connecticut, revisions by improving the of the WIC food package access to healthy food including 33 WIC-authorized availability and variety of revisions stores and 219 non-WIC healthy foods in urban and stores suburban settings, especially in WIC-authorized stores
From page 523...
... Andreyeva et al., 2014: The USDA Pre-post design using scanner 515 WIC households Whole-milk share declined in positive effects of the revised data to examine the effect in Connecticut and WIC milk purchases with no milk and cheese allowances of the revisions on milk and Massachusetts change in non-WIC purchases. in the Special Supplemental cheese, and saturated fat Total milk volume fell by Nutrition Program for intakes 14.2%, whole milk by half, Women, Infants, and Children and WIC-eligible cheese by 37.2%.
From page 524...
... Use of the food package changes CVV among racial and ethnic subpopulations were also disproportionate. Herman et al., 2006: Choices CCRP, Nonequivalent control-group 602 women enrolled at 3 WIC Wide variety of items made by low-income women CDHS, design to investigate whether sites in Los Angeles, California purchased at supermarket provided with an economic USDA, supplemental financial support and farmers' market sites.
From page 525...
... Kim et al., 2013: Mothers USDA Repeated cross-sectional 2,996 participants who Participants reported high prefer fresh fruits and survey to examine WIC received WIC in California satisfaction with the CVV vegetables over jarred infant participant use and satisfaction in 2010 and California WIC and jarred infant foods with fruits and vegetables in the with jarred infant foods, redemption data significant variations across new Special Supplemental preference for CVVs versus ethnic groups. About twoNutrition Program for jarred infant foods, and thirds of participants preferred Women, Infants, and Children variations among ethnic CVV over jarred infant foods.
From page 526...
... were satisfied Satisfaction of California WIC interviews to assess California California in 2010 with checks for new WIC participants with food package WIC participant satisfaction foods (fruits/vegetables, whole changes with the revisions, compare grains, and lower-fat milk) , based on language preference and 82.7% were satisfied with and timing of WIC enrollment amounts of foods reduced in the new packages in WIC before the revisions.
From page 527...
... WIC stores showed a relative increase in varieties of fresh fruits and shelf life of vegetables. USDA/FNS, 2011: Evaluation USDA Pre-post study to examine 17 randomly sampled local Notable differences in package of the birth month changes in breastfeeding WIC agencies, data collected assignments were observed, breastfeeding changes to the initiation, duration, or shortly before and shortly including decreases in the WIC food packages intensity that occurred after implementation of the partial breastfeeding package, following issuance of the 2007 Interim Rule and increases in the full Interim Rule, detailing the breastfeeding and full formula food package revisions packages; infants receiving no formula in the first month increased; the proportion receiving the maximum allowance of formula also increased.
From page 528...
... USDA/FNS, 2015: WIC food USDA Examine state agency responses 86 state agencies representing WIC participants were packages policy options II to policy options in the Final 99.98% of all WIC offered more options after Rule, determine differences participants the implementation of the in food options and cost revisions. WIC participants containment measures across have access to foods consistent state agencies, observe changes with recommendations made in WIC food lists before and by the Dietary Guidelines
From page 529...
... participants, including a description of the changes in prescription amounts due to the revisions Whaley et al., 2012: Revised USDA Pre-post cross-sectional 3,004 California WIC Whole grain consumption WIC food package improves telephone surveys to explore participants in 2009; 2,996 increased by 17.3 percentage diets of WIC families the impact of the revisions on in 2010 points. Whole milk WIC participant consumption consumption by caregivers of fruit, vegetables, whole and children who usually grain food, and lower-fat milk consumed whole milk decreased by 15.7 and 19.7% respectively.
From page 530...
... More and after a change in the WIC infant formula amounts, 206,092 dyads with an infant mothers received the full Special Supplemental Nutrition and breastfeeding initiation age 0–5 months in the sampled breastfeeding package and the Program for Women, Infants, WIC agencies full formula package. and Children Zenk et al., 2012: Fruit USDA, Quasi-experimental design Data from WIC vendors in 7 Availability and selection and vegetable availability RWJF with two pre-policy and northern Illinois counties from of overall fresh vegetables and selection: Federal food one post-policy observation 2008 to 2010 (n = 329, 346, and fruits and availability of package revisions, 2009 to examine availability and 364 in 2008, 2009, and African-American culturally and selection of commonly 2010, respectively)
From page 531...
... S Department of Agriculture; WIC-AI = WIC availability index.
From page 532...
... 2012. Positive influence of the revised Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children food packages on access to healthy foods.
From page 533...
... 2014. Impact of the revised Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)


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