Not so nutty

Posted by mamster on Thursday, November 1, 2007

Today in Serious Eats:

Food Allergies in the News

A recent 60 Minutes broadcast with Anderson Cooper examined a third-world nutrition supplement called (I love this name) Plumpy’Nut, a fortified peanut butter. “What about peanut allergies?” Cooper asked Dr. Susan Shepherd, head of Doctors Without Borders in Niger.

“In developing countries, food allergy is not nearly the problem that it is in industrialized countries,” Shepherd said.

2 Comments

Comment by heather

i loved the plumpynut story!!! it was so…heartening!

Posted on November 2, 2007 at 3:23 pm

Comment by heather

(on 60 minutes, i mean. though i also enjoyed yours. :) )

Posted on November 2, 2007 at 3:23 pm

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