Today we had Melissa an RD for WIC for Athens and Perry come and talk to us about the program and what she does. Women, Infants, and Children supplemental nutrition program is 100% government funded. She works with women while they are pregnant from the very beginning until their children are about one. To qualify for WIC the family or woman must be 185% of the poverty line. They greatly endorse breast feeding which makes sense. Breast feeding is great for everyone and I think that everyone should do it. People with lower incomes are the ones that use WIC and to me breast feeding makes sense even more if you do not have a lot of money. It is so beneficial to breast feed and formula is very expensive.
The second part of class we listened to a webinar. The research the R.D. talked about was really interesting, but it surprised me a little bit because they kept saying that there was no significance of eating healthy and its benefits to cancer/cancer prevention. She said she was surprised too, but it was a little discouraging. It makes me think that is very important for all R.D.s to be up to date on research. Obviously, I still know that eating healthy is beneficial in many ways, but I just thought the results of the research she talked about was slightly unexpected.
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