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

Autor/inn/en	Korenman, Sanders; Abner, Kristin S.; Kaestner, Robert; Gordon, Rachel A.
Titel	The Child and Adult Care Food Program and the Nutrition of Preschoolers
Quelle	In: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 28 (2013) 2, S.325-336 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-2006
DOI	10.1016/j.ecresq.2012.07.007
Schlagwörter	Food; Nutrition; Child Care Centers; Preschool Children; Obesity; Low Income; Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lebensmittel; Ernährung; Child care facilities; Child care services; Kinderzentrum; Kinderbetreuung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Adipositas; Niedriglohn
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 insecurity. We find that, among low-income children, CACFP participation moderately increases consumption of milk and vegetables, and may also reduce the prevalence of overweight and underweight. Effects on other outcomes are generally small and not statistically significant. (Contains 1 figure and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10