Lucy Martinez Sullivan's blog

Investing in Nutrition

“There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.  Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have,” said Winston Churchill in a radio broadcast to the British people during the height of the Second World War. Unfortunately, over 70 years later, too many nations remain afflicted with hunger and malnutrition, and too many children lack the basic nourishment they need for their brains and bodies to develop properly. 

Pulling Undernutrition From Its Roots

If we’re serious about ending poverty, then we have to get serious about improving nutrition. Nutrition is like the DNA of health and development. At an individual level, nutrition affects virtually every aspect of a human being’s physical and intellectual development. At a global level, how well (or poorly) people are nourished affects the overall health, prosperity and stability of communities and societies.
 
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