http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/02/government-nutrition-program-helping-us-crush-childhood-obesity-levels
Researchers are still exploring what factors caused the early childhood obesity rate to plummet 43 percent over the last decade. But a group of health experts at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill think that they have found at least part of the answer: changes to the federally funded Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children that gave poor mothers the means to purchase more fresh produce for their children.
This program, which is better known as WIC, provides billions of dollars per year in nutritious food vouchers for low-income pregnant women, breast-feeding women, and children younger than five. WIC was created in the 1970s, but it wasn't until 2009 that it provided mothers with vouchers for fruits and vegetables. That's the change that the North Carolina researchers think may have contributed to the stunning decline in obesity rates.
Barry M. Popkin, a UNC nutrition professor, and two colleagues recently finished a massive study, to be published in the March 2014 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, of the calorie consumption of US households from 2003 to 2011. During this time period, Popkin says, households with children purchased fewer calories every year. That pattern persisted even after researchers controlled for the effects of the recession. For the later years covered by the study, Popkin links the decline to WIC.
we have to remember and respect the fact that even though these suppression's are as heinous as murder if allowed to be implemented they would cause the same result just slower and more inhumane. they don't care about your or your kids if they did they would pass gun laws instead of telling you to arm your grade school kid.
Republicans looking to slash federal spending have targeted WIC in recent years. In March 2012, for example, the GOP-controlled House of Representatives tried to cut $243 million from WIC. The cut, which did not become law, "would have resulted in WIC having to turn away hundreds of thousands of eligible applicants," write Zoë Neuberger and Robert Greenstein, analysts for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a progressive think tank.
About 9 million low-income mothers and children are enrolled in WIC, which also provides parents with health care referrals and nutrition advice. In 2011, the program served about half of all eligible infants born in the United States.
on top of that they wanted 40 billion cut from the food stamp program, where's the love guess they left it on the floor of congress as they walked over it and out. Nov. 4th don't forget if you need to get right do it now can't say ahh crap Nov. 5th it's too late.
head start was just that for millions of kids all about keeping catching up with the rest of the world we trail by double digits and what do republicans do you ask,
if they cared about anything especially education then we wouldn't be where we are.
