Zarilla, an 8-year-old Afghan girl who is a patient in the Farah Supplemental Feeding Program run by the staff at the Farah Hospital, is weighed and measured by Dr. Nasrullah Noori to determine her progress, March 20, 2010, Farah, Afghanistan. The feeding program is designed to supplement the diet of many young Afghan boys and girls, ranging in age from infant to adolescent, who are unable to consume a proper nutritional diet and who are considered to be significantly underweight. Each week members of the Farah Hospital staff make "peanut balls" which are the cornerstone of the program. The pe
Zarilla, an 8-year-old Afghan girl who is a patient in the Farah Supplemental Feeding Program run by the staff at the Farah Hospital, is weighed and measured by Dr. Nasrullah Noori to determine her progress, March 20, 2010, Farah, Afghanistan. The feeding program is designed to supplement the diet of many young Afghan boys and girls, ranging in age from infant to adolescent, who are unable to consume a proper nutritional diet and who are considered to be significantly underweight. Each week members of the Farah Hospital staff make "peanut balls" which are the cornerstone of the program. The peanut balls are a combination of peanuts, powdered milk, white sugar, cooking oil and multi-vitamins that are systematically mixed together to ultimately create a sweet tasting and substantial dietary supplement. The Farah medical staff recommends that the children receive the supplement four to five times each day and say that the balls can be thinned out with water, combined with other foods, or simply even used as a spread over bread. If a child in the program receives his or her proper servings of the supplement as prescribed, results should be clear within the first 30 days of participating and the child should begin to gain weight.
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