Plumpy'nut - cheap life saver

[CBL4]

Sometime simple, low tech ideas can be brilliant.

Plumpy'nut is packet containing peanut butter, powdered milk and vitamins. A month supply cost $20 and it allows badly malnourished children to be treated at home instead of under a doctor's care and is more effective.

"With this one product, we can treat three-quarters of [the] children on an outpatient basis. Before, we had to hospitalize them all and give them fortified milk." -- Dr. Milton Tectonidis, nutrition specialist for Doctors without Borders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumpy'nut

Unlike previous products it does not require any mixing, training to administer, has a long shelf life and can even be produced locally.

And kids love the taste.

CBL

 

[TobiasTheViking]

Sounds as good as chocolate tastying toothpaste... That is, i'm never touchign it.

 

[Luke T.]

Sounds as good as chocolate tastying toothpaste... That is, i'm never touchign it.

You're just not hungry enough.

 

[Zep]

Wouldn't it be better for badly malnourished children to be under the care of someone who will actually feed them? Doesn't matter if it's Plumpy'nut or caviar if the parents starve them anyway...

 

[Dr Adequate]

Wouldn't it be better for badly malnourished children to be under the care of someone who will actually feed them?

Note how the quote in tho OP was from Doctors Without Borders, rather than Doctors In Affluent Countries Where Malnutrition = Neglect.

 

[Jocko]

Sometime simple, low tech ideas can be brilliant.

Plumpy'nut is packet containing peanut butter, powdered milk and vitamins. A month supply cost $20 and it allows badly malnourished children to be treated at home instead of under a doctor's care and is more effective.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumpy'nut

Unlike previous products it does not require any mixing, training to administer, has a long shelf life and can even be produced locally.

And kids love the taste.

CBL

The name needs some work. I mean, these little third-world rugrats may be hungry, but they know crappy marketing when they hear it.

Skippy Milk
The peanut butter for those in the gutter.

Besides, you've seen the Sally Struthers infomercials... these kids can barely keep the flies of their faces now, so how do you think they'll manage once they have peanut butter smeared all over them?

 

[Jorghnassen]

But what if you're allergic to peanuts?

/or is this just an industrialized country thing?

 

[Mycroft]

But what if you're allergic to peanuts?

/or is this just an industrialized country thing?

Then in a few generations natural selection will give them an edge over the populations that didn't have these people weeded out.

 

[Mycroft]

But what if you're allergic to peanuts?

/or is this just an industrialized country thing?

Then in a few generations natural selection will give them an edge over the populations that didn't have these people weeded out.

 

[Jocko]

Then in a few generations natural selection will give them an edge over the populations that didn't have these people weeded out.

Not if we keep slathering that stupid warning all over things.

 

[Mycroft]

Not if we keep slathering that stupid warning all over things.

I gotta tell you I got real sick and tired of the special dietary requirements of my kid's play-dates. If you can't survive a peanut-butter sandwich or a glass of milk, then maybe the next generation will just be better of without your contribution to the gene pool.

 

[Zep]

Note how the quote in tho OP was from Doctors Without Borders, rather than Doctors In Affluent Countries Where Malnutrition = Neglect.

Then won't the kids' parents need the product also? We're talking Feed The World here or what?!