Nov

23

Topic: Childhood Obesity News - WIC aims to fight obesity as well as hunger - Columbus Dispatch

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The tax-funded program now serves more than 300,000 Ohioans in families with incomes at or below 185 percent of the poverty level, said Michele Frizzell of the Ohio Department of Health. More than half of all babies born in Ohio are enrolled in the program, and Franklin County — with a monthly average of 37,400 recipients — just nudged ahead of Cuyahoga County as having the highest number of participants in the state, Frizzell said. Kristin Mullins of the Ohio Grocers Association said one tough switch is the “split-tender” allowed in the new WIC packages. And if Aunt Millie’s Hearth All Natural 7 Grain hamburger buns meet the new WIC standards, it won’t much matter if the corner store doesn’t stock them and the big-box is too far away, said Lisa Hamler-Fugitt, executive director of the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Foodbanks. Read Childhood Obesity

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