RUTF Is The Right Solution For Starving Children
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Enriched Peanut-Butter Mixture Could Restore Health To Millions Of Undernourished Children
We all know from reading the news and watching TV shows how many millions of children suffer from hunger and malnutrition every day of the year.
There is a simple solution using an innovative approach and it's called "Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF). It's like peanut butter but better.
Read the following statement and you will understand why.
According to Peanut Butter Project : "Peanut-based Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) is an energy-dense lipid paste very similar to commercial peanut butter, but with added vitamins
and minerals, powdered milk, vegetable oil, and sugar. It has been used successfully in home-based care as the singular therapeutic food for severely malnourished children with a 90% recovery rate. It is produced locally for the children of sub-Saharan Africa and is also available commercially from Nutriset in Malaunay, France. It can be stored, unrefrigerated, for months without spoiling." UPDATED ON Jan.6/12
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The Full Belly Project
Simple, but someone had to think of it
Gallery Full Belly Project After watching African women shelling peanuts and seeing their bleeding hands, Jock Brandis developed an inexpensive sheller to help them with their daily work.
Founder Jock Brandis is the inventor of the Universal Peanut Sheller which was featured on CNN after it won the Civic Ventures 2008 Purpose Prize of $100,000.
Here, in this video, you can watch the African women at work
Gallery Full Belly Project
According to this article from Next Billion
"Now peanuts have shifted from being a subsistence crop to a cash crop since they can commercialize the surplus. Lastly, the project doesn't just aspire to make the shelling process more effective, but now they are even considering using the shells as an alternative fuel source for the cement company that supplies cement for the shelling machines."
Making Nutrition a Sustainable Business in Haiti
PHARMACEUTICAL companies around the globe are donating billions of dollars in free drugs to third world countries grappling with poverty
Abbott Laboratories is taking its philanthropy a step further.
The Illinois-based company is donating the time of dozens of workers with expertise in food sciences and engineering, in addition to $6.5 million cash, to build a charitable, self-sustaining nutrition enterprise in Haiti, the poorest country of the Western Hemisphere.
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Who's Talking About Hunger In The World?
- 1 in 4 children malnourished, global report says
- The report called chronic malnutrition a largely hidden crisis that affects one in four children globally. Global hunger has fallen markedly over the last two decades, but the 2011 Global Hunger Index found that six countries have higher rates of ...
- Africa: Poor Diet Kills 2.6 Million Infants a Year, Says Survey By Save the ...
- By Simon Tisdall, 17 February 2012 Aid agency Save the Children in its latest report says 300 children are dying of malnutrition each hour, totaling 2.6 million children each year. ... ( Resource: Inside Story - Child hunger: The world's 'greatest ...
- Students Fight Global Hunger with Two Degrees
- Barr Hogen, the product developer for Two Degrees and former creative chef at Odwalla, incorporates grains and seeds such as quinoa, millet, and chia?all of which are grown internationally?to symbolically represent the global scope of malnutrition.
Plumpy'Nut
GLOBAL: Birthplace of a nutrition revolution - a blender in Malawi
Here is an excellent article that describes how the Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) was started.
A simple concept but yet so useful in saving lives.
Plumpy'Nut
Haiti: Peanut Paste Fights Malnutrition In Camps
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Reading About Poverty And Hunger In The World
And Of Course, About Peanut Butter
Partners In Health Also Use The Peanut Butter Therapy
Partners In Health is a clinic started by Dr.Paul Farmer in Haiti in order to bring health care to the poor who couldn't afford it.Photo
At the clinic, they also help the Haitian people with the problem of malnutrition and use the Peanut-based Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF)
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Did You Know About The Full Belly Project?
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sousababy
Jan 24, 2012 @ 7:11 pm | delete
- Dear Poutine,
I submitted this wonderful lens for the 'National Peanut Butter Day' quest (which expires tomorrow). Hope it helps!
Fondly,
Rose
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GramaBarb
Oct 19, 2011 @ 1:30 pm | delete
- Terrific lens! Angel blessed!
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sousababy
Jul 25, 2011 @ 9:03 am | delete
- Came back to Google+1 this excellent lens.
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Philippians468
Jun 13, 2011 @ 12:47 pm | delete
- this lens moved me! lets keep the poor in prayers too!
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katiecolette
Mar 1, 2011 @ 2:45 pm | delete
- This is the first time I hear about the Full Belly Project. Thank you for putting this lens together.
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