Announcing the Nutrients for All Photo Campaign!

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Want Healthier Food? Pay Farmers to Manage Nutrient Flows

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World Health Day 2013: “Modern” Food and High Blood Pressure

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Investing in Local Food Businesses for Community Health and Wealth

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Impact of Ashoka Fellow’s fortified supplementary food

Posted by on Mar 15, 2013 in Blog | 0 comments 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...
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Junk food can be deliberately addictive

Posted by on Mar 11, 2013 in Blog | 0 comments 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...
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