New study finds that orange maize improves vitamin A in children
Just ahead of World Food Day, a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has established that ‘orange’ vitamin A maize increases vitamin A storage in the body.
October 17, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: body, clinical, clinical-nutrition, maize-increases, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, study-published, world, world-food
WFP Calls For Global Leadership To Invest In Nutrition As Rising Prices Hit Hard
As rising prices cast millions of families overnight into the ranks of the hungry, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today called for global leadership to invest in nutrition…
May 10, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: cast-millions, families-overnight, hungry, programme, ranks, rising-prices, the-hungry, united, united-nations, world-food
WFP Launches Emergency Operation To Support 3.5 Million Vulnerable People In DPRK
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is launching an emergency food and nutrition operation to respond to urgent hunger needs among 3.5 million vulnerable people identified in a multi-agency food security survey that was completed in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) last month…
April 29, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: aid / disasters, democratic, dprk, food-security, korea, oncalldietitian.com, programme, republic, united, united-nations, urgent-hunger, vulnerable-people, wfp, world, world-food
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North Korea Urgently Needs Food Aid, U.N. Report Says North Korea urgently needs food aid especially for young children, pregnant women and seniors, the World Food Program (WFP) and the U.N
November 18, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: agriculture, korea, north-korea, times, urgently-needs, wfp, world-food, young-children
Egypt Launches Ground-Breaking Oil Project To Boost Nutrition
Egypt has launched a major national project to protect its population from vitamin deficiencies, with production beginning this week of vitamin-enriched vegetable oil. The project is in partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)…
November 4, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, gain, global, improved, improved-nutrition, major-national, nutrition / diet, oncalldiets, programme, united-nations, week, world, world-food
MSF Calls For Donor Countries To Improve Food Aid Nutrition Standards On Eve Of World Food Day
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) released a statement in advance of Saturday’s World Food Day saying that the “world’s biggest donors of food aid … continued to supply and fund nutritionally ‘substandard’ food to developing countries, despite scientific evidence showing it was of little value in reducing child malnutrition,” Reuters AlertNet reports…
October 18, 2010 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: biggest-donors, despite-scientific, developing-countries, evidence-showing, food-aid, frontieres, little-value, medecins-sans, msf, nutrition / diet, on call diets, reducing-child, reuters-alert, world, world-food
