[pronut-hiv] Nutrition and HIV

["Good Shepherd Hospital" <doctors@realnet.co.sz>]

Nutrition and HIV
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Trying to get people land, then plowing, then manure, then fencing,
then seed, then irrigation.
 Not easy when you don't have a coin.  Our hospital is prepared to
pay for seed.   My embassy (US) doesn't even have the agency that usually helps with agriculture (A.I.D.)
 People eat Leguscha, which seems like a wild okra.
They eat the leaves, unfortunately, for me they overcook it too glue.
 Any ideas how to get maize available for niacin with lime, or any
other alkalizing method. As in Mexico's Masa Harina?  

 Dave lee, Swaziland

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Stacia M. Nordin wrote:
 I work in Malawi, Africa with the  general public, but I do a lot of sessions with people living with HIV/AIDS.
Every country has a wealth of local nutrition in the form of local plants,
 and I encourage people to utilize their own fruits, vegetables, legumes,
 animal foods, oilseeds and staples.

 One of our biggest problems in Malawi is that the diet is almost all
(60-80 percent in most surveys) maize -  not whole maize, but processed maize that  only has carbohydrate and barely any other nutrient.  We are working to get  people to eat LESS maize and PLANT LESS maize.  Instead of eating all this maize, eat more from the other food groups and diversity the staple food to include other grains, roots and starchy fruits (like green bananas)...

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