Impact of Ashoka Fellow’s fortified supplementary food
Basil Kransdorff has been working with HIV/AIDS and TB patients in South Africa for a decade. He realized that part of their difficulty in combating the disease comes from their (often extreme) malnourishment. So he developed a “cocktail” of 28 micronutrients (vitamins and minerals), embedded in a pre-cooked whole grain meal (which contains some essential oils). The micronutrients are in complex forms that increase their bioavailability to the body. Putting AIDs and TB patients on this advanced nutritional supplement has resulted in...
read moreJunk food can be deliberately addictive
A recent article, based on detailed investigative reporting, makes clear that the seeming addictive quality of junk food is no accident. Food companies carefully blend sugar, salt, fats and other ingredients in ways that keep the body from becoming satiated with any one taste, so you keep on eating. In addition, other recent articles document the huge quantities of salt and sugar in the US diet and their harmful impact on wellness. Read more...
read moreThe Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 (GBD 2010) is the largest ever systematic effort to illustrate both the distribution and cause of diseases and other health risks. The most recent study indicate that more people are suffering from non-communicable diseases, and while people are living longer, they spend more years living with injury and illness. This result is of particular interest, as we have seen innovators and practitioners enable people to live lives of vitality in part due to proper nourishment, mitigating some of the negative...
read moreBuilding a Consortium for Wellness: The Transformation Federation
Energizing a Movement to Transform Wellness and Nutrient Security David Aylward, July 9, 2012 Precis: Evidence is critical to sectoral transformation and to rapid learning networks. We propose a path for developing new common measurements of wellness, and using a large, shared, and growing evidence base from many independent social entrepreneurs, NGOs, and others of the benefits and costs of transformed methods of improving health, wellness, and nutrition. Billions of people around the world lack access to basic primary health care, and...
read more1000 Days Project
The 1000 Days Initiative is a transformational program for developing healthy mothers and thriving babies amongst economically vulnerable populations. It is an integrated approach offering wellness and health services over the course of a woman’s pregnancy and the first two years of her infant’s life. It combines best practices for maternal and newborn care in a single, unified package. The 1000 Days Initiative: Transforming Maternal and Child Health and Wellness Prepared by: Public Health Foundation of India Apollo...
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