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 — 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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