China outrun UN goal on child hunger
By SHARON LaFRANIERE (New York Times)
Updated: 2006-05-03 09:17
At a news conference in Johannesburg, Jay Naidoo, chairman of the Global
Alliance for Improved Nutrition, a nonprofit group based in Geneva, proposed
that the staples of poor families' diets, such as corn or wheat flour, be
routinely fortified with vitamins to improve nutrition ¡ª just as salt is iodized
to limit iodine deficiencies.
"The most cost-effective intervention is to fortify the basic foods that
people consume," Mr. Naidoo said.
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