Nutrition & Health

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UC Davis student Emma Vazquez
Bug Squad: Article

Food Waste Project: Emma Vazquez on the Mike!

December 3, 2024
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Over the Thanksgiving holiday week, American consumers tossed out about 200 million pounds of turkey, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. In fact, American consumers waste 60 million tons of food a year, statistics show.
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A family child care home provider sits at a table with three children and talks to them about the food they are eating while they share a lunch meal together.
Nutrition Policy Institute: Article

Evidence to Support an Additional CACFP Meal Reimbursement for Family Childcare Home Providers

December 3, 2024
By Danielle Lee, Kassandra A Bacon, Celeste Felix, KC Fiedler, Susana Matias, Lorrene D Ritchie
Policy Brief • December 2024 • Download PDF (284 KB) “Ideally, we would like a reimbursement for all the meals that we serve, which is five. But if I have a secondary choice, I would want to be reimbursed four meals, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus either AM snack or PM snack.” – Family childcare…
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Nutrition Policy Institute News: Article

New policy briefs highlight the need for expanded shopping options and smartphone app modifications to help WIC participants redeem food benefits

December 2, 2024
By Lorrene D Ritchie, Danielle Lee
Nutrition Policy Institute, in collaboration with the National WIC Association and Pepperdine University, released two policy briefs encouraging modernization efforts for the federal Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, commonly known as WIC.
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