Strategies to Limit Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption in Young Children Proceedings of a Workshop (2017) / Chapter Skim
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7 Reflections and an Exploration of Gaps and Opportunities
7 Reflections and an Exploration of Gaps and Opportunities
Pages 75-82
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She then moderated a panel discussion, which expanded to a facilitated discussion toward the end of the session. Panelists included Richard Black, Stephen Daniels, Marlene Schwartz, and Mary Story.
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, as well as school meals and competitive food policies, as examples of improvements that have been made. From her perspective, similar opportunities for change currently exist for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and, to a lesser extent, the Child and Adult Care Feeding Program (CACFP)
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She also pointed out the range of roles that government, from local to federal, could play by using tools such as executive orders and City Council decisions that include revising regulations around the availability of sugar-sweetened beverages to participants in nutrition assistance programs and the importance of looking to the food industry to develop new products. "Stakeholders, partners, community -- all of those -- are really essential to getting this done," she said.
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Fruit Drinks and 100 Percent Fruit Juice Among the challenges discussed by the panel was the terminology used to characterize fruit drinks that are less than 100 percent juice. Schwartz suggested that describing such products as fruit drinks can lead to confusion since the term fruit is used, a sentiment shared by Story.
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believe was happening is happening." Daniels also challenged Black's comment, stating that longitudinal data are necessary in order to better understand how taste preferences develop in context of parental feeding habits and behaviors. With respect to longitudinal data, an audience member noted that the Food and Nutrition Service is currently conducting the WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study II, and published its first report at the beginning of January (May et al., 2017)
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Black suggested that sugar-sweetened beverages may serve as an accessible treat that low-income families can afford, and that strategies to reduce sugarsweetened beverages need to provide opportunities for treats with less added sugars. Expanding on this idea, Stallings offered that one of the challenges is that food and beverages are part of our ceremonies, celebrations, and culture.
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Daniels described nutrition education for medical students and residents as "woefully inadequate." Later, Ferree described the efforts on this front by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, which include working alongside the the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Bipartisan Policy Center, and a number of other partners to transform the training systems used not only in medical schools, but also in all affiliated health care professional training systems. From the audience, Leann Birch emphasized the role of and opportunities to use WIC as a conduit for reaching parents.
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She also touched on the role of nutrition education through federal programs. Evidence gaps currently exist, Cullen noted, and include longitudinal studies of dietary patterns of children from birth to 5 years of age and studies exploring the effect of marketing on young children's consumption of sugarsweetened beverages.
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