A Twist on the old PB & J - Plumpy Nut
Recently I heard this news story about malnutrition, and it needs way more attention. It’s a twist on the old PB&J recipe and it could FEED THE WORLD. And if gas prices keep going up, Americans may need it as well.
You’ve heard of Doctors without Borders? Even Angelina Jolie made a movie about them, but they are known as MSF or Medecins Sans Frontieres and if you never heard of them, go to You Tube, you boob, and watch their video.
http://www.youtube.com/msf
Every year, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides emergency medical care to millions of people caught in crises in nearly 60 countries around the world. MSF provides assistance when there are catastrophic events, conflicts, epidemics, malnutrition, or natural disasters which otherwise overwhelm local health organizations.
On any day, 27,000 doctors, nurses, field workers, water-and-sanitation experts, administrators, and a tribe of helpers, provideg medical care in international teams made up of local MSF aid workers from around the world.
To donate to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières:
http://doctorswithoutborder...
But, ten years ago, André Briend, a French scientist, devised a paste of powdered milk, ground peanuts, oil, sugar, vitamins and minerals that resolves problems of preparation, storage and contamination because it is prepared without water.
The paste, known as ready-to-use food, can be made locally; children can eat it directly from individual foil packets. More important, most children can be treated at home, rather than being hospitalized. This vastly increases the number of children who can be reached.
This PB & J in bag has had remarkable effects allowing thousands of people, mostly children to recover from malnutrition. They call it PLUMPYNUT.
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
Every year, malnutrition kills five million children or one child every six seconds. Nobel Prize-winning relief group "Doctors Without Borders" says it can save millions of these children by providing this ready-to-eat, vitamin-enriched food. Plumpynut is a remarkably simple concoction: it is basically made of peanut butter, powdered milk, powdered sugar, and enriched with vitamins and minerals. It tastes like a peanut butter paste. It is very sweet, and kids love it.
It is also cheap, easy to make, and even easier to use. A daily dose costs about $1 and small factories mix it in Africa where it is currently used.
"It's a revolution in nutritional affairs," says Dr. Milton Tectonidis, the chief nutritionist for Doctors Without Borders. "Now we have something. It is like an essential medicine. In three weeks, we can cure a kid that is looked like they're half dead. We can cure them just like an antibiotic. It’s just, boom! It's a spectacular response," Dr. Tectonidis says. Doctors Without Borders is asking for more of this type of food. Their success in Niger proves, they say, that fortified ready-to-eat products, like Plumpynut, save children's lives. Dr. Tectonidis says if the United States and the European Union were willing to spend part of their food aid on this, more companies will start making it. "Even by taking a miniscule proportion of the global food aid budget, they will have a huge impact, huge impact!" Tectonidis says. "We're not even asking for billions. It will solve so much of the underlying useless death. So we gotta do that now."
So, if you find yourself feeding your car and not your kids, you might invest in some Plumpy Nut
www.worldhunger.org
Also get smarter and feed the world by playing this!
FREE RICE DOT COM
http://www.freerice.com/
Recently I heard this news story about malnutrition, and it needs way more attention. It’s a twist on the old PB&J recipe and it could FEED THE WORLD. And if gas prices keep going up, Americans may need it as well.
You’ve heard of Doctors without Borders? Even Angelina Jolie made a movie about them, but they are known as MSF or Medecins Sans Frontieres and if you never heard of them, go to You Tube, you boob, and watch their video.
http://www.youtube.com/msf
Every year, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides emergency medical care to millions of people caught in crises in nearly 60 countries around the world. MSF provides assistance when there are catastrophic events, conflicts, epidemics, malnutrition, or natural disasters which otherwise overwhelm local health organizations.
On any day, 27,000 doctors, nurses, field workers, water-and-sanitation experts, administrators, and a tribe of helpers, provideg medical care in international teams made up of local MSF aid workers from around the world.
To donate to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières:
http://doctorswithoutborder...
But, ten years ago, André Briend, a French scientist, devised a paste of powdered milk, ground peanuts, oil, sugar, vitamins and minerals that resolves problems of preparation, storage and contamination because it is prepared without water.
The paste, known as ready-to-use food, can be made locally; children can eat it directly from individual foil packets. More important, most children can be treated at home, rather than being hospitalized. This vastly increases the number of children who can be reached.
This PB & J in bag has had remarkable effects allowing thousands of people, mostly children to recover from malnutrition. They call it PLUMPYNUT.
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
Every year, malnutrition kills five million children or one child every six seconds. Nobel Prize-winning relief group "Doctors Without Borders" says it can save millions of these children by providing this ready-to-eat, vitamin-enriched food. Plumpynut is a remarkably simple concoction: it is basically made of peanut butter, powdered milk, powdered sugar, and enriched with vitamins and minerals. It tastes like a peanut butter paste. It is very sweet, and kids love it.
It is also cheap, easy to make, and even easier to use. A daily dose costs about $1 and small factories mix it in Africa where it is currently used.
"It's a revolution in nutritional affairs," says Dr. Milton Tectonidis, the chief nutritionist for Doctors Without Borders. "Now we have something. It is like an essential medicine. In three weeks, we can cure a kid that is looked like they're half dead. We can cure them just like an antibiotic. It’s just, boom! It's a spectacular response," Dr. Tectonidis says. Doctors Without Borders is asking for more of this type of food. Their success in Niger proves, they say, that fortified ready-to-eat products, like Plumpynut, save children's lives. Dr. Tectonidis says if the United States and the European Union were willing to spend part of their food aid on this, more companies will start making it. "Even by taking a miniscule proportion of the global food aid budget, they will have a huge impact, huge impact!" Tectonidis says. "We're not even asking for billions. It will solve so much of the underlying useless death. So we gotta do that now."
So, if you find yourself feeding your car and not your kids, you might invest in some Plumpy Nut
www.worldhunger.org
Also get smarter and feed the world by playing this!
FREE RICE DOT COM
http://www.freerice.com/
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