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Home » 60 Minutes A Life Saver Called "Plumpynut" Anderson Cooper Reports On A Nutritional Breakthrough Comments 240 | Page 1 of 3 June 22, 2008 (CBS) 'Miracle' Food Saves Lives Plumpynut is a cheap, nutritious food that is saving starving children in the developing world. Anderson Cooper reports on why this product is effective and how it could save even more lives. | Share/Embed [...] (CBS) This segment was originally broadcast on Oct. 21, 2007. It was updated on June 20, 2008. You've probably never heard a good news story about malnutrition, but you’re about to. Every year, malnutrition kills five million children - that's one child every six seconds. But now, the Nobel Prize-winning relief group "Doctors Without Borders" says it finally has something that can save millions of these children. It's cheap, easy to make, and even easier to use. What is this miraculous cure? As CNN's Anderson Cooper reports, it's a ready-to- eat, vitamin-enriched concoction called "Plumpynut," an unusual name for a food that may just be the most important advance ever to cure and prevent malnutrition. [...] http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/19/60minutes/main3386661.shtml Related Links 60 MINUTES Doctors Without Borders http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ Doctors Without Borders: Malnutrition http://doctorswithoutborders.org/news/issue.cfm?id=2396 Doctors Without Borders Briefing Paper: Food Is Not Enough: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/malnutrition/FoodIsNotEnough.pdf --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
