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Insects can contain up to 80% protein, the body's vital building blocks, and are also high in energy-rich fat, fiber, and micronutrients like vitamins and minerals.
In the remaining brain matter, you would find proteins and amino acids, traces of micronutrients, and glucose.
Like the other organs in our bodies, our brains also benefit from a steady supply of micronutrients.
And without powerful micronutrients, like the vitamins B6, B12, and folic acid, our brains would be susceptible to brain disease and mental decline.
We need to get proteins, we need to get micronutrients, we need to get vitamins.
When we think about micronutrients, almost all of them are affected by higher CO2 concentrations.
Not just malnutrition in general, but there's a very cheap way of dealing with malnutrition, namely, the lack of micronutrients.
A free school meal gets kids into school, which is education, the first step out of poverty, but it also gives them the micronutrients and the macronutrients they need to develop mentally and physically.
A target to lower chronic malnutrition by 40%, by ensuring better access to micronutrients and sufficient food, would have a remarkable impact.
Eight hundred million people are chronically undernourished while three and a half billion lack micronutrients.
This makes it the best investment the world could make, reaping social benefits that outweigh the costs by 40 to 1.Similarly, providing micronutrients missing from more than half the world’s diet would reduce diseases caused by deficiencies of iron, zinc, iodine, and Vitamin A with an exceptionally high ratio of benefits to cost.
Their problems are more basic: not dying from easily preventable diseases; not being malnourished from lack of simple micronutrients; not being prevented from exploiting opportunities in the global economy by lack of free trade.
The 2012 study demonstrated that an investment of just $100 per child could pay for a bundle of interventions – including micronutrients, diet-quality improvements, and behavior-change programs – that would reduce chronic undernutrition in developing countries by 36%.
A research paper by Stephen Vosti of the University of California, Davis, and colleagues shows that 95% of Haiti’s wheat flour could be fortified for a decade with an investment of just $5.1 million in premixed micronutrients, equipment, and training.
This “fortification” is common in many countries, and can be adapted to add micronutrients to any staple food.
For one-fiftieth of that cost, we could provide essential micronutrients to 2-3 billion people, thereby preventing perhaps a million deaths and making half the world’s population mentally and physically much stronger.
Indeed, we have not even succeeded at providing enough food for today’s population of 7.3 billion: Nearly 800 million people currently are starving or hungry, and another couple billion do not get enough micronutrients.
These include better brick kilns to tackle air pollution in Dhaka, micronutrients to combat pervasive stunting, planting mangrove to protect against flooding, more effective tuberculosis treatment, and improved services for the half-million people migrating overseas every year.
The same sum could similarly be used to help the four million people who will die from malnutrition this year, the 2.5 million killed by indoor and outdoor air pollution, the two million who will die because they lack micronutrients (iron, zinc, and vitamin A), or the two million whose deaths will be caused by a lack of clean drinking water.
Effective strategies are cheap and simple: it’s mostly a question of getting what’s needed (micronutrients, cleaner forms of fuel, free condoms, mosquito nets) to those in need.
Fruits and vegetables are sources of numerous micronutrients, and some, including b-carotene (a precursor of vitamin A), vitamin C, vitamin E, and selenium, have potential as antioxidants.
Research undertaken by the Copenhagen Consensus shows that an excellent approach would be to devote more money to providing the micronutrients that are lacking in poor communities’ diets.
Our research shows that fortifying staple products with vital micronutrients generates huge returns almost everywhere it currently is not done.
We concluded that there would be high benefits from providing micronutrients – particularly vitamin A and zinc – to undernourished children in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
It will also fund micronutrients and parasite treatment for all students and the food, water, hygiene, and human care critical to children’s development, especially during times of distress.
Lessons travel poorly: If an RCT finds out that giving micronutrients to children in Guatemala improves their learning, should you give micronutrients to Norwegian children?
The best measures are familiar ones: expanding immunization coverage, promoting breastfeeding, increasing the use of simple and cheap treatments for diarrhea and childhood pneumonia, ensuring widespread distribution of key micronutrients, and spreading the use of anti-retroviral drugs and breastfeeding substitutes to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission.
The family’s basic diet is low in the essential micronutrients that children need to thrive.
“If I have to spend 150-200 rupees on medicine,” she asks, “what will I eat and feed my children with?”Dulu’s story is heartbreaking – and heartbreakingly common – in the developing world: three billion people survive on diets that lack micronutrients like vitamin A and Zinc, and are at increased risk of illness from common infections like diarrheal disease, which kills nearly two million children annually.
A lack of micronutrients and clean drinking water will claim two million lives each.