Dominic Schofield Keep diets diverse: Specific interventions should include approaches to improve dietary diversity, and particularly in the case of micronutrients tackling deficiencies of iron or calcium.
Tackling micronutrient deficiency UNICEF supports the tackling of micro-nutrient deficiencies, low birth weight and chronic malnutrition through increased routine vitamin A supplementation, iron and folic acid supplementation, promotion of iodised salt, and the marketing of fortified foods such as flour and sugar.
"Our view is that the billions of pounds that has been spent developing this rice and the false hopes it has raised has diverted valuable resources away from more sensible ways of tackling VAD deficiency.
The present work is concerned with tackling this deficiency.
There has been dramatic progress in tackling iodine deficiency disorders (IDD), the world's leading cause of mental retardation.
Worldwide, there has been dramatic progress in tackling iodine deficiency disorders (IDD), the world's major cause of mental retardation, because of a global partnership involving governments and civil society that has made iodised salt available to an additional 1.5 billion people, which has meant protection for some 90 million infants.
A Pinch of Salt: tackling Iodine Deficiency Disorders among children in Sudan 31 August 2011 - This month saw a significant new step towards the goal of universal salt iodization (USI) in Sudan when the eastern state of Gadaref passed a new law prohibiting the sale of all non-iodized salt.
Interestingly, both technologies are crucial to tackling micronutrient deficiencies.
Unfortunately, rather than tackling these deficiencies, the 2013 revision removed the provision for other appropriate benefits.
Over the past decade, the UN children's agency, Unicef, has been working in tandem with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (Gain) to tackle iodine deficiency.
If too little acetylcholine is part of the problem, then it might be possible to tackle the deficiency by inhibiting the activity of this enzyme.
