How one man’s mission to end a global scourge with salt could lead to a public-health breakthrough
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Venkatesh Mannar needs to make universally consumed salt a medium to deal with iron deficiency. Having travelled to over 50 nations to promote use of fortified salt, his life’s mission is to defeat anaemia with iron-enriched salt. Once he achieves this purpose, Mannar hopes to add extra important minerals, turning the common-or-garden desk salt into a potent public-health software.
By Katie McLeanWhen he was rising up, Venkatesh Mannar and his siblings handled the household saltworks as their playground: they’d slide down mountains of salt drying within the solar the way in which different kids would possibly sled down snow-covered hillsides.The salt operation, within the southern Indian port metropolis of Thoothukudi, had been based by his grandfather’s grandfather. As they’d for generations, males stood within the brine, utilizing wood trowels to rake
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