The new bill would mean more fresh fruit and vegetable purchases, a boost for Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign against obesity.The White House is determined to wipe out childhood obesity within a generation, and Mr Obama set up his own task-force as part of "Let's Move".
Bakker's produce suppliers also discount his fruit and vegetable purchases because his deliveries come in reusable plastic crates instead of cardboard boxes.
After the emoticons arrived, average vegetable purchases rose to 1.2 per student per day – a 62% increase.
According to a study released Wednesday by the Voice of the People, a nonpartisan polling group, and conducted by University of Maryland researchers, an overwhelming majority of American voters of both parties favor restricting SNAP benefits from being used to buy soda and candy, as well as incentivizing fruit and vegetable purchases and increasing the overall amount of SNAP benefits available.
Of the outcome variables (fruit and vegetable purchasing), it is estimated that the most challenging to shift will be vegetable purchasing, therefore we have based our sample estimates on this outcome.
At the population level and over time, such differences in fruit and vegetable purchasing may be clinically significant.
Measures of daily equivalent fruit and vegetable purchasing quantities (adjusted for household members/composition) and daily equivalent serves consumed will be calculated.
Waterlander et al. showed that a 50% discount on fruit and vegetables increased fruit and vegetable purchasing by a factor of four [ 16] and Ni Mhurchu et al. in a study conducted with supermarkets in New Zealand (NZ), showed a 10% increase in fruit and vegetable purchasing with a 12.5% price discount on healthy food options (the equivalent of removal of the NZ Goods and Services Tax) [ 13].
A 2x2 randomized controlled trial in Dutch supermarkets found no effect of nutrition education alone on fruit and vegetable purchases, but a significant increase in fruit and vegetable purchases with a 50% discount, and the greatest increases when pricing was combined with nutrition education [ 22].
Sample size calculations are based on the ability to detect increases in fruit and vegetable purchasing of at least 0.5 serves per day (in Australia, a standard serve is equivalent to 75 grams vegetables or 150 grams fruit).
Waterlander et al. showed no effect on fruit and vegetable purchasing with nutrition education alone (i.e., through provision of recipe books and telephone counselling) but reported an added beneficial effect when combined with a 50% price discount [ 16].
