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SNAP participants consumed 30% more vegetables than nonparticipants.
Practitioners should consider promoting SNAP participation to enhance vegetable intake in low-income children.
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After multivariate adjustment, SNAP participants consumed 30% more vegetables (95% CI 4%, 62%) than nonparticipants.
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Based on the analysis of a large dataset (NHANES).
Source
Dietary Behaviors and Diet Quality of Low‐Income Children in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Cindy W. Leung et al. · The FASEB Journal · 2012
DOI 10.1096/fasebj.26.1_supplement.631.5
cross-sectional · n=5730
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