Charles, a Canadian epidemiologist, knew that iron-rich foods and
supplements were too expensive for most rural Cambodians. Even cast-iron
pots, which safely transmit iron to food as it cooks, were out of
reach.
When he handed out smiling iron replicas of try kantrop fish which the locals considered a symbol of good luck, women started cooking with them and anaemia in the villages eventually disappeared.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/an-iron-fish-in-every-pot/355742/
When he handed out smiling iron replicas of try kantrop fish which the locals considered a symbol of good luck, women started cooking with them and anaemia in the villages eventually disappeared.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/an-iron-fish-in-every-pot/355742/
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