ERIC Number: EJ1293600
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
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Supporting Development through Child Nutrition
Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore; Thorn, Betsy
Future of Children, v30 n2 p115-141 Fall 2020
Nutrition is vitally important both during pregnancy and during a child's early years. Inadequate nutrition during this critical period can harm children's health and developmental outcomes throughout childhood and into adulthood. Thus, write Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and Betsy Thorn, it's particularly important that young children have adequate nutrition and resources. Yet many young children in the United States lack adequate nutrition. In this article, Schanzenbach and Thorn lay out the extent of the problem and review what the research tells us about inadequate nutrition's detrimental effects on young children's development. They report on the effectiveness of policies and programs that aim to improve nutrition among young children--especially the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)--as well as supplementation of nutrients (both mandatory and voluntary) by the manufacturers of food products, primarily grains. Finally, they suggest how policy makers and others could help more young children, especially the most vulnerable, get the nutrition they need.
Descriptors: Nutrition, Child Health, Public Policy, At Risk Persons, Federal Programs, Low Income Groups, Child Development, Health Promotion, Food, Dietetics, Young Children, Family Characteristics, Program Effectiveness, Infants, Toddlers, Poverty, Participation, Obesity
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and The Brookings Institution. 267 Wallace Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. Tel: 609-258-6979; e-mail: FOC@princeton.edu; Web site: https://futureofchildren.princeton.edu/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infants and Children
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