Fewer children in the state’s Women, Infants, and Children supplemental nutrition program are overweight and obese.
The WIC program serves low-income pregnant and breastfeeding women and their children up to the age of 5.
According to the Arizona Department of Health Services, 14 percent of children in the program were overweight in 2011. Two years later, that number dropped to 13.3 percent.
"Now that doesn’t seem like a lot but when you’ve had the numbers going in the opposite direction for so long, seeing a decrease is a really good sign," said Sheila Sjolander of AZDHS.
Obesity rates also dropped in the same time period.
