Authors' Reply Sprinkles as a Home Fortification Strategy to Improve the Quality of Complementary Foods 英文参考文献.docVIP

Open access, freely available online Correspondence Sustainable Super-Sprinkle: Powdered Local Foods Stacia Nordin Lilongwe, Malawi E-mail: nordin@ Stacia Nordin Reference 1. Zlotkin SH, Schauer C, Christo?des A, Sharieff W, Tondeur M, et al. (2005) Micronutrient Sprinkles to Control Childhood Anaemia. PLoS Med 2: e1. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020001 I appreciate Zlotkin and colleagues’ years of work on the Sprinkle product, and it sounds like the product is much improved from the pill form of micronutrient treatments [1]. I’m not at all opposed to Sprinkle-type products or other nutrient pills for treatment (or in other special situations), but as ten years of international work experience on food and nutrition security issues has shown me, few programmes are supporting local solutions to problems. Once again, a message is being sent that nutrition comes from a pill or packet, made by a foreigner, and requires money. In the case of Sprinkles, the product could support local solutions by including a message on each sachet about the importance of eating a wide variety of local foods—or a picture of local fruits, vegetables, and legumes. Instead of just sprinkling a packet onto a bulky carbohydrate food, use the Sprinkles as treatment along with instruction about planting and eating less of that bulky carbohydrate in the ?rst place. Even better would be to take all that research, time, energy, and money to teach people (or local manufacturers) how to make their own Sprinkles from local nuts, fruits, greens, oilseeds, insects, ?sh, and the like. The results could be just as immediate and dramatic, but with an impact that could last for generations to come. The organisations that support this type of permanent intervention could be mentioned during every teaching session along with big banners and ?yers that announce them as the inventors and/or supporters. Just imagine a nice sprinkle powder that everyone can have on hand to improve their own nutrition without rel