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Measuring dietary fat in a brief manner is a goal of many research and community-based studies. Short instruments for assessing diet have utility if they meet acceptable standards of reliability and validity for the population groups with which they are used. This research editorial reviews...

This report documents the methodology used to derive the previously published estimates of food stamp participation rates for all eligible people and the working poor.

This study looks at the factors associated with SNAP entry and exit from 2004 to 2006 by examining individual and family demographic and economic characteristics, as well as state economic measures and SNAP policies.

This report details how Head Start—the largest federally funded early childhood education program in the U.S. that reaches one million children—uses a multilevel approach to prevent childhood obesity that involves staff, parents, and community partners.