Enriched Peanut-Butter Mixture Could Restore Health Of Millions Of Undernourished Children
Children Being Fed Peanut Butter
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."
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."
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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
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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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- Frankster Frankster May 17, 2009 @ 5:37 pm
- Wonderful lens about a very important topic. Peanut butter has always been one of my staples. I love it! 5 stars, favorite and I'm a FAN! Bear hugs, Frankster aka Bearmeister aka Cat-Woman
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- kaazoom kaazoom May 1, 2009 @ 12:04 pm
- Thank you for sharing this
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- Janusz Janusz Apr 19, 2009 @ 11:01 am
- Blessed by a Squid Angel :)
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- SemperFidelis SemperFidelis Apr 11, 2009 @ 3:53 pm
- Blessed by a SquidAngel today!
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- Ramkitten Ramkitten Mar 25, 2009 @ 10:51 am
- I'd never heard of this. Thank you for sharing. And, speaking of peanut butter, a relative with a child severely allergic to peanuts said that's far more prevalent in the U.S. than in other countries. I wonder if that's true.
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