The First 1,000 Days: A Crucial Time for Mothers and Children--And the World
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (960 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1610398173 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Thurow has spoken and made the issue clear: children everywhere need better food and water if they are going to grow into healthy adults."Kirkus Reviews. He takes us to the four corners of the world--from the streets of Chicago to the villages of northern Uganda--to show how the right nutrition helps children not just survive, but thrive. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Arial; color: #002060 span.s1 {font-kerning: none Melinda Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation"Roger Thurow gives an intimate look at the struggles many women facePoverty, lack of training, and prejudice are at the heart of the world's malnutrition problemsThurow provides just enough grim facts on infant and mother mortality, the scarcity of food, sanitary conditions for birthing, and the genera
"A Compelling Case" according to J. Lund. Roger Thurow has once again shown that we have the knowledge and the technology to solve the most tragic, preventable health problem facing the world--hunger and malnutrition. He combines incisive analysis and the compelling stories of mothers and their babies to make a case that is convincing to the head and tou. "We have big problems both in US and areas of extreme poverty with very poor nutritional and health practices" according to Martin G. White. Anyone concerned for the health of future generations should read this. We have big problems both in US and areas of extreme poverty with very poor nutritional and health practices, many of which are are culturally inculcated.. Robert L. Hartenfeld said Better Understanding for Action. It was a great help to understand the depth of this problem. For several years I headed Lutheran Social Ministries of MS. But this has added to my understanding and activities I am involved in now. Thanks to Roger Thurow for his work. Hunger need not be.
. Roger Thurow is a senior fellow for global agriculture and food policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He is, with Scott Kilman, the author of Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, which won the Harry Chapin WhyHunger award and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein B
"Your child can achieve great things."A few years ago, pregnant women in four corners of the world heard those words and hoped they could be true. Among them were Esther Okwir in rural Uganda, where the infant mortality rate is among the highest in the world; Jessica Saldana, a high school student in a violence-scarred Chicago neighborhood; Shyamkali, the mother of four girls in a low-caste village in India; and Maria Estella, in Guatemala's western highlands, where most people are riddled with parasites and moms can rarely afford the fresh vegetables they farm.Greatness? It was an audacious thought, given their circumstances. But they had new cause to be hopeful