Large-scale food fortification—adding essential vitamins and minerals to staple foods like flour, rice, oil, and salt—currently prevents approximately 7 billion nutrient gaps worldwide each year at a ...
A comprehensive new systematic review published in The Journal of Nutrition provides the latest evidence that large-scale food fortification is a highly cost-effective intervention for reducing global ...
Trade CAS David Osiany, Family Health head Dr. Issak Bashir, Health CAS Dr. Rashid Aman and Nutrition and Dietetics head Veronica Kirigo. “We are not where we used to be, but we have not reached where ...
Did you know that one-third of our world’s people – across all income levels – suffer from what can potentially be a disabling or life-threatening form of vitamin and mineral deficiency? In fact, iron ...
If nutrition had a World Series, iron would never make the playoffs. Vitamin A scores home runs for preventing childhood blindness. Folic acid knocks it out of the park by preventing devastating birth ...
Vitamin D concentrations in Finnish adults have risen clearly in recent decades, according to a large-scale follow-up study conducted at the University of Oulu, Finland. This favorable development ...
Today, nearly half of children born in urban and a quarter of those born in rural Kenya are likely to suffer brain and spinal cord defects due to folate (Vitamin B9) deficiency. Moreover, about a ...
Three fortified rice brands launched in Uttar Pradesh aim to enhance nutrition and address micronutrient deficiencies through ...
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