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Background
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) provides enough formula to meet the known nutritional needs of infants up to 6 months of age whose mothers report not breastfeeding, but many mothers report WIC providing insufficient formula, indicating potential overfeeding.
Objective
To estimate the prevalence of potential overfeeding among formula‐feeding...
Objective
To assess whether the effect of the 2009 women, infants, and children (WIC) food package change on obesity outcomes varies by initial weight status and gender.
Methods
Using 2003 to 2016 data from Los Angeles County, we compared growth trajectories and obesity at age 4 years among children exposed to WIC after the food package change (n = 53 075) vs children exposed before (n = 53 075)...
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