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      • IIMSAM works to promote the use of Spirulina against Malnutrition.

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      • A World FREE of Malnutrition

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    • What is Malnutrition

      • Medical Condition due to poor nutrition.

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  • Spirulina

    • What is Spirulina

      • Complete food for the body

    • History of Use

      • Has been consumed by humans for ages

    • Why Spirulina

      • Best Natural Source of Complete Nutrition

    • Spirulina as Super Food

      • Balanced & Fortefied Nutrition than conventional food.

    • Nutritional Benefits

      • Protein,Vitamins,Minerals,Antioxident, Fibre & much more

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      • Holistic Improvements.

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      • "Best Food for the Future".

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SPIRULINA

  •  What is Spirulina
  •  History of Use
  •  Why Spirulina
  •  Spirulina as Super Food
  •  Nutritional Benefits
  •  Health Benefits
  •  UN on Spirulina
  •  FAO on Spirulina

DID YOU KNOW?

Spirulina is a blue - green algae is the richest whole-food source available in nature.


FAO on Spirulina

Spirulina endorsed by FAO, as a follow-up on a General Assembly draft resolution initiated by IIMSAM
During the sixtieth session of the United Nations General Assembly (Second Committee, Agenda item 52), IIMSAM initiated a revised draft resolution on the “Use of Spirulina to combat hunger and malnutrition and help achieve sustainable development” which was submitted by: Burundi, Cameroon, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Paraguay. As a follow-up on this resolution, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) was requested to prepare a draft position on Spirulina. FAO’s report was presented in 2008 and includes the following recommendations:
• To improve technical and economic solutions to Spirulina production in environmentally impoverished conditions, as well as to prepare tested production packages for rapid deployment in emergency situations.
• To develop a practical guide to small-scale Spirulina production that could be used for development mythologies, oriented towards:
i) Providing nutritional supplements for use in rural and urban communities where the diet is inadequate;
ii) Allowing diversification from traditional crops in cases where land or water resources are limited;
iii) An integrated system for waste water treatment, small-scale aquaculture production and other livestock feed supplication;
iV) As a short- and medium-term solution to emergency situations where a sustainable supply of high protein/high vitamin foodstuff is required. This implies the ability to rapidly install systems in a variety of environments that can be sustained by local communities to cover both the short-term food needs and to supplement longer-term nutritional requirements especially once other forms of food relief cease to be delivered.
• To establish a better monitoring of global Spirulina production and product flows.
• To develop some form of web-based resource that allows the compilation of scientifically robust information and statistics for public access.
• To develop clear guidelines on food safety aspects of Spirulina so that human health risks can be managed.
Source: FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Circular No. 1034. A review on culture, production and use of Spirulina as food for humans and feeds for domestic animals and fish.
Should Spirulina be taken before or after meals?

As Spirulina is a nutritional supplement it can be taken any time. However the people with middle, old age, diabetes, gastrointestinal disease, weight loss, beauty and health should eat Spirulina half an hour or an hour before a meal. Before puberty, the young with cancer, anemia, major surgery, major trauma, poor physical and feeble takes after the meal.

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