Improving Child Nutrition Programs Will Help More Children Succeed, Witnesses Tell House Committee

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 2, 2010.  With child obesity and child hunger both on the rise, Congress has a critical opportunity to help children be healthy and succeed in school by improving access to and the quality of the U.S. child nutrition programs and the Women Infants and Children (WIC), witnesses told the House Education and Labor Committee today. Providing children with access to healthy food during the critical years of early development, in child care, at school and during the summer can help fight the childhood obesity epidemic and bolster students’ achievement.