Products: Overview | Severe acute malnutrition | Moderate acute malnutrition | Chronic malnutrition
Moderate acute malnutrition
It is defined by a moderate weight loss. If it goes untreated, it can lead to severe acute malnutrition.
VALID Nutrition has developed a Ready-to-Use Supplementary Food (RUSF), also called “Lipid-based Nutrient Supplement – Large Quantity or LNS-LQ” to treat moderate acute malnutrition in children over 6 months and adults:
RUSF Product Factsheet
Note: Breastfeeding is recommended until at least 24 months (exclusive up to 6 months). All VALID Nutrition products are for children > 6 months and do not replace breastfeeding.
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Products: Overview | Severe acute malnutrition | Moderate acute malnutrition | Chronic malnutrition
Moderate acute malnutrition
It is defined by a moderate weight loss. If it goes untreated, it can lead to severe acute malnutrition.
VALID Nutrition has developed a Ready-to-Use Supplementary Food (RUSF), also called “Lipid-based Nutrient Supplement – Large Quantity or LNS-LQ” to treat moderate acute malnutrition in children over 6 months and adults:
RUSF Product Factsheet
Note: Breastfeeding is recommended until at least 24 months (exclusive up to 6 months). All VALID Nutrition products are for children > 6 months and do not replace breastfeeding.
![](https://www.validnutrition.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Valid-Nutrition-RUSF_Sachet.png)
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Dr Steve Collins reflects on the opportunities and problems associated with the USD$250 million contribution announced by Administrator, Samantha Power of USAID – a positive catalyst for change?
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VALID commissioned and achieved peer-review of a professional report to quantify objectively the overall climate impact profile of the amino-acid enhanced, plant-based RUTF recipe. It has found that the overall global warming potential impacts of the plant-based RUTF recipe are 47%-52% less than the milk-peanut based recipe.
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Dr Steve Collins gives a hugely informative and enlightened interview to ENN podcast while discussing his candid Reflections on the UN Global Action Plan on Wasting.