Nutritionist

VICKY ALVARADO

Well-nourished babies in Honduras look like well-nourished babies everywhere--plump, active, alert. In rural Honduran towns, there's now one more way to identify them: look for a little blue pin next to their names on one of Vicky Alvarado's healthy-eating charts. A child earning one of those is a child getting a fair shot at life.

For too many Honduran children, a fair shot--ensured by a full stomach--has long been out of reach. Up to 40% of the population under age 5 suffers from malnutrition. In the poorest villages, that number jumps to 70%. Honduras is hardly the only country that does...

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