UNICEF: ECHO and UNICEF promote Plumpy'nut production

[KristenBella123]

I did a research paper on child malnutrition in Niger. Got 100%

[applesweeter]

I heard about plumpynut 5 years ago. It is amazing. Usually, chidlren will slowly die if their disgestive systems fail due to lack of food.

Because of the plumpynut, they are saved. They can obtain vital nutrients before total failure of their disgestive system as well as other body organs

[smileyxoxo100]

u kno if more companies start making plumpynut there would be work so people can hav a job and help save lives.those kids that are malnurished are so adorable but its heartbreaking to see them suffer.they look cute when they are eating the plumpynut :)

[Gospelwatcher]

Guess what...we can make our own plumpy'nut at home with peanut butter, powdered sugar, powdered milk and vegtable oil! However here, we can treat

severe anorexia nervosa and severe child neglect. You must be under 100 pounds to get some. The more they weigh, the less they eat. Overpopulation aint the problem...disease is..PERIOD!

We need to get the FDA's approval to use

it to treat anorexia....that's that.

[mander1141]

QUESTION: :::WHY::: is the recipe for Plumpy'Nut such a guarded secret? :::WHY::: Do Nutriset lawyers go after anyone who attempts to share the recipe?  It seems the greatest hypocrisy of all, to pretend to have concern for the hungry of Niger or Haiti, but not to share with those malnourished children in other parts of the world, whose parents might be able to make this for themselves. SHAME ON YOU!

[jerryaltman]

As example if China had no stronge laws for natality control, they would be like many Africa countries today, starving. But China, despite ditactorial politic, was wise and implemented natality control, and today they have no starving populations.

[granitepeace]

But they still do have people dying because many farmers are only allowed to eat what they grow - which gives them a diet which lacks diversity and many nutrients. For example they were studying rice farmers who were dying from cancer because of a zinc deficiency.

[jerryaltman]

I saupose if just eat peanuts it's not the same as eat a paste of if, since would have a higher absorption eating the past. Also this special paste peanut nased food ir enriched with vitamins and minirals. Fine to help people starving. But if a natality contyrol do not happnen, the problem in future can be higher, since there would be many more people to feed and the agriculture in those countries would never handle.

[granitepeace]

I agree. The problem is population control - and STD's. The AIDS epidemic. There are many more root issues that need to be addressed as well

[cadetstarnoodle]

Amazing scientific discovery. However, can we please adopt instead making new ones? Birth control is also an amazing scientific discovery. We're competing for finite resources. Even dumb-level math tells us there ain't enough to go around. Yes, love the already-born baby, but could we please stop making new ones for a minute? Please? At this rate, we'll go the way of the do do, & that's ok, but we're taking down everything else with us. It just doesn't seem logical, sane, smart, or reasonable.

[jerryaltman]

You did a fine commnet and 4 fooold classified you as negative. But you are right, if we think that in tghose countris a 16 years old girls is already a mother, and wil have many babies... There will be a boom of biblions of people in future,a nd there will be no food on earth to so many people, if they don't stop to have so many kids. A similar thing already happen in some places.

[daffydoug]

I want to help by purchasing plumpy nut for these children...can someone tell me how and where to donate?

[yeldarb11]

this actually makes the crisis much worse. We need to reduce the number of humans by giving insentives for people not to have more than 2 children. It is a great thing to help responsible people but pointless to help people who are breeding machines.

[cadetstarnoodle]

I have to agree. Though it is amazing, the recovery, I am BAFFLED as to why anyone, really, is even making one new kid with the world population at over 6.5 billion. I of course care NOT what one's race is (we are all the same race when it comes to competition for land, water, and air) - we gotta STOP MAKING NEW PEOPLE!Every problem we face can be alleviated were we to have FEWER PEOPLE. Why isn't it front page news, DAILY? NEGATIVE POPULATION GROWTH, PLEASE, regardless of who you are. Thanks.

[marinaatrossveiw]

So when are you leaving?

[modernactivist]

this is an amazing invention. doctors without borders, you guys are geniuses!!! you guys are really packing a powerful punch on stopping malnutrition!!!!!

[sportsfan002]

This is peanut butter playdough, mixed by kindergarten teachers for generations. It's an old recipe being put to a great new use.

[india9]

Amazing idea. The fact it doesn't have to be mixed with water means there's no chance of it getting contaminated either. Well done Plumy'nut.

[kebgrl]

This is such a good thing they created for little babies