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Summary of Findings

2007-2008 Summary of Findings

• The Use of the New World Health Organization Growth Standards to Identify Trends and Determinants of Overweight in WIC Infants and Children
  Zeina Maalouf and Kathryn G Dewey, University of California, Davis
• WIC Vendor Access and Fruit and Vegetable Availability in Northern Illinois
  Angela Odoms-Young, Shannon Zenk, Noel Chavez, University of Illinois at Chicago and Daniel Block, Chicago State University
• Impact of the School Breakfast Program on the National School Lunch Program in an Elementary School
  Karen Spears, PhD, RD, University of Nevada, Reno

2006-2007 Summary of Findings

• The direct economic effects of a policy to provide government subsidized price discounts for the purchase of fruit and vegetables by Food Stamp recipients
  Karen Jetter, University of California Davis
• A Longitudinal Study of Food Insecurity on Overweight in Preschool Children
  Elizabeth Metallinos-Katsaras, Simmons College, Jan Kallio, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Aviva Must and Parke Wilde, Tufts University and Kathleen Gorman, University of Rhode Island.
• Dietary behaviors that promote over consumption: Food insecurity is not associated with lower energy intakes
  Claire Zizza and Patricia Duffy, Auburn University, and Shirley Gerrior, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, US Department of Agriculture

2005-2006 Summary of Findings

• Intra-Household Allocation and Consumption of WIC Approved Foods
  Ariun Ishdorj, Helen H. Jensen and Justin Tobias, Iowa State University
• Policy implications of WIC or food stamp program participation on children's diet quality and the risk for childhood obesity
  Sibylle Kranz and Jill Findeis, Pennsylvania State University
• Feeding Practices of Childcare Staff in CACFP-Funded Centers
  Madeleine Sigman-Grant; Elizabeth Christainsen; George Fernandez, University of Nevada, Reno

2004-2005 Summary of Findings

• Educational Intervention to Modify Bottle-feeding Behaviors Among Formula Feeding Mothers in the WIC Program: Impact on Infant Formula Intake, Weight Gain and Fatness
  Kathryn Dewey (PI), Jane Heinig, Katie Kavanagh-Prochaska
• Household food security, dietary intake, and obesity among a sample of recently arrived Liberian refugees receiving food assistance
  Craig Hadley
• Validation Study of a Diet Adequacy Screening Tool for Participants in the Older Americans’ Act Nutrition Program
  Beth Rabinovich (PI) and Suzanne W. McNutt

2003-2004 Summary of Findings

• Adapting EFNEP to Meet the Changing Needs of Food-Assistance Eligible Families: Investigating the Results of Program Responses to Welfare Reform
  Katherine Dickin, Ph.D. and Jamie Dollahite, Ph.D., R.D., Cornell University
• Are Economic Incentives Useful for Improving Dietary Quality Among WIC Participants and their Families
  Dena Herman, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., Gail G. Harrison, Ph.D., UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Eloise Jenks, M.Ed., R.D., Public Health Foundation Enterprises, WIC Program, Abdelmonem A. Afifi, Ph.D., UCLA School of Public Health
• The Links Between Food Insecurity, Food Program Participation, and Overweight Status in Children: Evidence from Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey
  Donald Rose, Ph.D., Tulane University School of Public Health

2002-2003 Summary of Findings

• Household Food Insecurity, Food Assistance Program Participation, and the Use of Preventive Medical Care
  Gail G. Harrison, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
• The Food Insecurity-Obesity Pardox in Women
  Christine M. Olson Ph.D., R.D. and Myla S. Strawderman, Cornell University
• Use of a "Contract of Change" and Biochemical Markers to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Nutrition Education to Increase Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Low Income Women
  Francene Steinberg, Ph.D., R.D. and Karrie M. Heneman, PhD., University of California, Davis
  

2001-2002 Summary of Findings

• Hunger, Food Insecurity, and Child Obesity
  Marilyn Townsend and Hugo Melgar-Quinonez, University of California,Davis
• Impact of Home-Delivered Meals on Nutritional Status and Food Security of Elderly Persons in New York State
  Edward A. Frongillo and Wendy S. Wolfe, Cornell University
• Development of a Diet Quality Index for Preschool Children and it APPLICATION in Examining Dietary Trends in the U.S.
  Anna Maria Siega-Riz and Sibylle Kranz, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

2000-2001 Summary of Findings

• Validation of Food Security Instruments in Hispanic Households
  Lucia Kaiser and Hugo Melgar-Quinonez
• Lessons Learned from the Spend Less; Eat Well; Feel Better Program Efficacy
  Joda P. Derrickson, G. Kaui Asing, Annette Okuma and Chad Buchanan
• The Effects of Food Stamp and WIC Programs on Nutrient Intakes of Children
  Steven T. Yen, Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno

1999-2000 Summary of Findings

• Do Food Stamps, Food Label Use and Nutrition Knowledge Affect Dietary Quality Among Low-Income Adults: Results from the 1994-1996 CSFII/DHKS, Rafael Perez-Escamilla, Ph.D., University of Connecticut
• Factors Mediating the Use of Food Assistance Programs and Coping Strategies that Improve Food Security and Nutritional Well-Being Among the Low-Income Hispanic Population, Grace Marquis, Ph.D., Iowa State University
• Unsafe Food Acquisition Practices Used by Limited Resources Individuals, Debra Palmer-Keenan, Ph.D. and Sylvia Ridlen, Ph.D.,
  Rutgers University
• Food Stamps, Ethnicity, and Nutrient Supplements: Associations with Food Intake and Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs about Nutrient Supplement Use, David Pelletier, Ph.D., Cornell University
• Etiology of Iron Deficiency and Iron Deficiency Anemia Among Children Aged 12 months, Sheri Zidenberg-Cherr, Ph.D., University of California, Davis

1998-1999 Summary of Findings

• Influence of Food Stamps on the Nutritional Status of Inner-City Preschoolers from Hartford, CT, who Receive WIC Benefits.
  Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Ann M Ferris, Linda Drake, Lauren Haldeman, Jessica Peranick, Marcia Campbell, Donna Moran, Yu-Kuei Peng, Georgine Burke, Bruce Bernstein
• Relationship between participation in food assistance programs and skeletal health in adult women and men.
  May-Choo Wang DrPH, RD, Lori Beth Dixon PhD, MPH
• Impact of Food Insecurity and Food Assistance Program Participation on Nutritional Risk in Elderly
  Edward A. Frongillo, Jr., Ph.D. and Jung Sun Lee, M.S.

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