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Robert Wood Johnson acknowledges life before age 2 y!

Study Finds Early Childhood Links to Disparities in Obesity Rates
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New research reveals surprising facts about simple behaviors that may alter a child's health legacy for life. In addition, Elsie Taveras, M.D., M.P. H., lead author of the study, found that national efforts to address the problem may be missing the most important period - before age 2...

5 days 22 min ago

NWA testifies to the importance of the Ten Steps and Code

The National WIC Association's Kiran Saluja, Deputy Director of PHFE WIC, was asked to testify about WIC and breastfeeding issues before the House Committee on Education and Labor, chaired by WIC Champion George Miller (D-Concord) Tuesday, March 2, 2010, to discuss federal child nutrition programs - WIC, child care food, and school meals - that are up for Reauthorization.

She noted that an important place to start to help WIC succeed in its breastfeeding support and promotion efforts would be to fix the breastfeeding - broken hospitals!

6 days 23 hours ago