date:Dec 18, 2012
organization, aims to help save the lives of two million children by 2015 by preventing malnutrition. Dr. Mark Manary, founder of Project Peanut Butter and a pediatrician and professor of pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, developed a prototype for Ready-to Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTFs) in 1999 and field tested the original version in 2001.
The RUTFs are a peanut-based, vitamin-enriched nutritional packet that result in 95% of children medically diagnosed as