UNICEF: ECHO and UNICEF promote Plumpy'nut production

NIAMEY, Niger, 18 May 2007 -- Two years after Niger's severe nutrition crisis, the sight of undernourished children is less common than it was, but chronic malnutrition still affects more than 50 percent of the country's young children. And 10 per cent of Niger's children suffer from acute malnutrition, even when the harvests are good.
Like many therapeutic health centres across Niger, the UNICEF-supported clinic in Tillabery -- an hour away from the capital, Niamey -- gives Plumpy'nut to severely malnourished children. The high-protein, high-energy, peanut-based paste typically comes in foil wrappers or small plastic tubs, which are practical for children who can easily eat them.
For more information please visit http://www.unicef.org/nutrition/niger_39675.html

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[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

[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!

[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

[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]

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.

[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.

[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.