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Banishing Malnutrition - The Struggle Continues

Jayaseelan Naidoo | Posted 09.11.2012 | Impact
Read More: Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Gain, Children, Health, Malnutrition, Hunger, Civil Society, Food Fortification, Impact News
Jayaseelan Naidoo

GAIN turned the conventional wisdom about addressing malnutrition from one focused on treatment to one focused on prevention, from a medical model to one that recognized that most people engage with markets to get their food rather than health clinics.

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Subway Debuts 'Healthy' New Bread

Posted 10.02.2011 | Home
Read More: Fast Food Health, Fast Food, Subway Fortified Bread, Subway Sandwich, Vitamin D Bread, Subway Vitamin Bread, Subway, Food Fortification, Vitamin D, Subway Bread, Subway Healthy Bread, Are Subways Healthy, Subway New Bread, Video, Home News

Subway, the world's biggest food chain by the number of outlets, has just announced plans to start adding vitamin D and calcium to the bread it uses i...

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It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times

Jayaseelan Naidoo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Folic-Acid, Malnutrition, Gain, Maternal Health, Children's Health, Food Fortification, Home News
Jayaseelan Naidoo

This line came again to me as I read commentary on a recent Canadian study that showed that thanks to fortified foods easily accessible in Canada, almost no one there is deficient in folic acid. In fact forty percent have levels of the B vitamin in their blood that may be too high.

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Ending World Hunger for the Price of a Burger

Stephan B. Tanda | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Resources, Population, Grain, Resource Scarcity, Agriculture, United Nations, World Bank, Hidden Hunger, Diet, Development Assistance, Stephan Tanda, Government, Staple Foods, Vitamins, World Health Organization, Maize, Private Sector, World Food Programme, Minerals, Development, Population Growth, Poverty, Hamburger, Corn, Malnutrition, Child Malnutrition, Hunger, Rice, Burger, Health, Nutrition, International Food Policy Research Institute, Food Prices, Civil Society, Food Fortification, World News
Stephan B. Tanda

While world coffers grew from a mere $1.35 trillion dollars in 1960 to over $60 trillion today, the number of empty stomach reached record levels. Tod...

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A Market Solution to Help the World's Poor?

Stephan B. Tanda | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Dsm, United Nations, Innovation, International Finance Corporation, Hidden Hunger, Business, Stephan Tanda, South Africa, Vitamins, Base of the Pyramid, Micronutrients, Poverty Reduction, Minerals, Economic Growth for Developing Countries, Development, Poverty Alleviation, Poverty, Social Innovation, Ecommerce, World Resources Institute, Developing Countries, Malnutrition, New York, Mdgs, Trade, Nutrition, Millennium Development Goals, Health, Bangladesh, Global Poverty, Free Market, Food Fortification, World News
Stephan B. Tanda

Is there a real business in helping the world's poor? According to the World Resources Institute and the International Finance Corporation, there is.

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Africa's Toughest Challenge Is About to Enter Overtime

Stephan B. Tanda | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Developing Countries, World Cup 2010, World Cup, United Nations, World Bank, Mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Global Poverty, Un, Food Fortification, Maternal Mortality, Africa Hunger, South Africa, Africa Poverty, Africa Malnutrition, World News
Stephan B. Tanda

Huge sums of money have been spent getting South Africa ready for the World Cup. If only the rich world saw the investment potential to bring the disadvantaged out of extreme poverty and hunger.

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