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Nestle Boosts Nutrition Education in Africa
The Central and West Africa Region has not been left untouched by the increasing burden of under-nutrition, which is affecting developing countries worldwide. To help ameliorate the dire situation, Nestlé, the world’s leading Nutrition, Health and Wellness company, officially launched its Healthy Kids Global Programme in 2009, part of concerted efforts to improve children’s dietary habits.
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Mexico nears junk food tax, sets anti-obesity plan
Mexico's congress approved a new tax on junk food Thursday as the government announced a campaign to fight obesity in a country with one of the world's highest rates of overweight people.
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- Latin America
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- nutrition, public health
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Malnutrition is biggest global health problem, Gates Foundation exec tells CU students
Malnutrition plays a major role in the deaths each year of 6.6 million children under 5 years of age, a global health expert told Creighton University premed students Tuesday.
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How finding research gaps can help fight malnutrition
The case of nutrition in the development agenda is often complicated. It is often overshadowed when bundled with food security, and yet donors sometimes appear clueless on how to solve one without addressing the other, leaving many to question on whether donor money is really making a dent in the global fight against malnutrition. So what can the aid community do? Nutrition experts on Thursday converged in New York — where development takes center stage this week — to present some 20 priority areas for nutrition research in the first Global Research Agenda on Nutrition Services. These include:* Describing the interactions between the food system and nutrition. * Integrating individual and household-level factors underlying economic vulnerability and food insecurity. * Role of nutrition in developmental origins of health and disease. * The relationship between markers of nutrition and functional outcomes. * Knowledge related to inputs of nutrition intervention.
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Final Event: Innovative solutions for a ‘Nutrients for All’ world
You’re invited for a Twitter Discussion (#SocEntChat) and Google+ Hangout on Wednesday, September 18th from 10am to 12:30pm EDT to debate some of the key innovation trends form the competition, connect with other social innovators and thought leaders, share the broader vision of Nutrients for All, and meet the competition winners.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- nutrition
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Golden Rice: Lifesaver?
One bright morning this month, 400 protesters smashed down the high fences surrounding a field in the Bicol region of the Philippines and uprooted the genetically modified rice plants growing inside.Had the plants survived long enough to flower, they would have betrayed a distinctly yellow tint in the otherwise white part of the grain. That is because the rice is endowed with a gene from corn and another from a bacterium, making it the only variety in existence to produce beta carotene, the source of vitamin A. Its developers call it “Golden Rice.”
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- Asia Pacific
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- nutrition
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Lauren Bush Lauren: Social Enterprise Is Her Bag
The founder of FEED explains how she turned a simple burlap bag into a powerful tool for fighting world hunger.
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How Meals at School Help the Kyrgyzstan Economy: 12 years after launching Food For Education, Mercy Corps looks back
The reality is that a school meal may be the only meal a child receives in a day, and it can make the difference between future success and a lifelong struggle with poverty.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- nutrition