![]() ![]() Beginning in 2005, the dietary guidelines began advocating that at least half of grains consumed be whole grains. Those changes, in turn, followed a 2005 report from the National Academies advocating adjustments to WIC food packages in line with changing Dietary Guidelines for Americans. ![]() made to the WIC food packages, incorporating whole grains. The study explored the effects of 2009 changes the U.S.D.A. Foods in the program include infant formula and infant-food fruits, vegetables, and meats fluid milk vitamin C-rich fruit or vegetable juice eggs, cheese, peanut butter, dried and canned beans/peas, canned fish, whole grains, and iron-fortified cereal. During the first five months of fiscal 2018, about 7 million participants per month were indicated. program providing low-income, nutritionally at-risk pregnant and postpartum women, as well as infants and children up to 5 years of age, with food assistance and nutrition counseling. economists Hayden Stewart, Jeffrey Hyman, Patrick W. In addition to commenting on consumption patterns, the researchers suggested a rule allowing only 16-oz loaves to qualify for redemption with WIC benefits to be overly restrictive and possibly counterproductive. ![]()
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