WIC Food Improves Preschool Kids Diets

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Having healthy eating habits from early ages is important to setting up a healthier future.

According to a recent study article, one in five children in the U.S. entering elementary school is overweight, but new research has revealed that the USDA’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program has improved roughly four million children’s’ diet quality.

Researchers funded by the National Institute of Health looked at how diets changed with new WIC food packaging, discovering that children in WIC households had eaten some vegetables while only one in five children, not receiving WIC, had any vegetables.

Studies also show Latino kids often face less access to healthy foods in their schools and neighborhoods, resulting in poorer diets.

Lead author and pediatrician in the study, June Tester, explained that future research needs to be continued but all children are not eating enough vegetables and food packaging plays an important role in the diets of young children.

To learn more about this study, click here.

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