The Child and Adult Care Food Program and the Nutrition of Preschoolers.

ABSTRACT: Children spend a considerable amount of time in preschools and child care centers. As a result, these settings may have an influence on their diet, weight, and food security, and are potentially important contexts for interventions to address nutritional health. The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) is one such intervention. No national study has compared nutrition-related outcomes of children in CACFP-participating centers to those of similar children in non-participating centers. We use a sample of four-year old children drawn from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort to obtain estimates of associations between CACFP program participation and consumption of milk, fruits, vegetables, fast food, and sweets, and indicators of overweight, underweight status and food i

SUBMITTER: Korenman S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3653583 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature