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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism Volume 2012, Article ID 764504, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/764504 Research Article Effects of a Cereal and Soy Dietary Formula on Rehabilitation of Undernourished Children at Ouagadougou, in Burkina Faso Zoenabo Douamba,1, 2 Marina Martinetto,1 Virginio Pietra,1, 3 Salavatore Pignatelli,1 Fabian Schumacher,3 Jean-Baptiste Nikiema,1, 2 and Jacques Simpore1, 2 1 Centre Medical Saint Camille de Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso ´ 2 Centre de Recherche Biomoleculaire Pietro Annigoni, Saint Camille-CERBA/LABIOGENE-Ouagadougou, ´ Universite de Ouagadougou, 03 BP 7021 Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso ´ 3 University of Brescia, Piazza Spedali Civili 1, 25123 Brescia, Italy Correspondence should be addressed to Jacques Simpore, jacques.simpore@yahoo.fr Received 31 May 2011; Revised 5 October 2011; Accepted 14 October 2011 Academic Editor: Frank Thies Copyright © 2012 Zoenabo Douamba et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The New Misola consists of millet soybean, peanut, vitamins, minerals, and industrial amylase. Our objective is to demonstrate that porridge made from local grains and legumes restores the nutritional balance of malnourished children. The study was carried on 304 malnourished children aged 6–48 months including 172 girls and 132 boys from Saint Camille Medical Centre. At the beginning, these malnourished children had a WHZ z -score of −3.10 and a WAZ z -score of −3.85, which reflected, according to WHO, a severe malnu