Eroding Brainpower, More Vitamin Fortification

The brainpower of entire nations has eroded. The problem: a shortage of the right vitamins. The solution: enriched foods, according to the United Nations.

The UN is prescribing a whole array of artificially fortified foods: soy sauce with zinc, “super salt” spiked with iron, cooking oil fortified with vitamin A.

Deficiencies of these vitamins are having an alarming effect in many developing countries, even in those where people usually have enough to eat, claims the UN.

Posted by Jim Langcuster at March 25, 2004 09:28 AM | TrackBack