[pronut-hiv] Andre Briend on RUTF

["Ted Greiner" <tedgreiner@yahoo.com>]

I sent Andre Briend Basil's message of Dec 6 (which mentions Andre) and he asked me to post the following letter to the group:
   
  Dear Ted, 
   
  I am not registered in this forum.
   
  Can you kindly forward the following statement (you could quote me) to this forum: 
   
  The ready to use therapeutic food referred to in this forum has about the same nutritional composition in terms of protein, lipid, and sugar content as the F100 diet which has been recommended by WHO since 1999. See: http://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/en/manage_severe_malnutrition_eng.pdf p. 13 Table 7. 
  
Similar diets, high fat high protein high sugar, have been recommended by WHO since 1980. RUTF and F100 are the result of a long standing evolution based on more than 30 years of research. They have been used literally on millions of children over the last 20 years. 
   
  These diets indeed are recommended by WHO only for severe acute malnutrition, but they are very well adapted for this specific use. Health warnings mentioned in this mail do not seem warranted. 
   
  Best regards, 
   
  André
   
  André BRIEND, MD, PhD
Medical Officer
Department of Child & Adolescent Health and Development
World Health Organization, CH-1211 Genève 27, Switzerland
Tel: ++ 41 22 791 14 47
http://www.who.int/child-adolescent-health/