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The First 1,000 Days - A Crucial Time for Mothers and Children--And the World (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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The First 1,000 Days - A Crucial Time for Mothers and Children--And the World (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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"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: they were participating in an
unprecedented international initiative designed to transform their
lives, the lives of their children, and ultimately the world. The
1,000 Days movement, a response to recent, devastating food crises
and new research on the economic and social costs of childhood
hunger and stunting, is focused on providing proper nutrition
during the first 1,000 days of children's lives, beginning with
their mother's pregnancy. Proper nutrition during these days can
profoundly influence an individual's ability to grow, learn, and
work-and determine a society's long-term health and prosperity. In
this inspiring, sometimes heartbreaking book, Roger Thurow takes us
into the lives of families on the forefront of the movement to
illuminate the science, economics, and politics of malnutrition,
charting the exciting progress of this global effort and the
formidable challenges it still faces: economic injustice, disease,
lack of education and sanitation, misogyny, and corruption.
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