Evaluating the initial impact of the revised Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) food packages on dietary intake and home food availability in African-American and Hispanic families

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 83-93

  Odoms Young, Angela M ^a   Kong, Angela ^a   Schiffer, Linda A ^a   Porter, Summer J ^a   Blumstein, Lara ^a   Bess, Stephanie ^b   Berbaum, Michael L ^a   Fitzgibbon, Marian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Illinois Department of Human Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Dietary behaviours; Food assistance; Minority groups; Nutrition policy; Obesity

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANIMAL; ANTHROPOMETRY; CALORIC INTAKE; CATERING SERVICE; CEREAL; CHEMISTRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; ETHNOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD ASSISTANCE; FRUIT; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; LIFESTYLE; MILK; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECALL; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; CEREALS; CHICAGO; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD ASSISTANCE; FOOD HABITS; FOOD SUPPLY; FRUIT; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; LIFE STYLE; MENTAL RECALL; MILK; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VEGETABLES;

EID: 84889869173     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980013000761     Document Type: Article

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