How WIC Helps Lane County

WIC keeps families eating healthy!

WIC provides healthy food, breastfeeding support, & guidance on how to prepare, shop for and incorporate healthy meals into your life.
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Quick Facts

  • WIC improves the dietary intake of pregnant and postpartum women
  • WIC reduces low birth weight and increases the duration of pregnancy
  • WIC reduces fetal and infant deaths
  • WIC improves the growth of nutritionally at-risk infants and children
  • WIC decreases the incidence of iron deficiency anemia in children
  • WIC significantly improves children's diets