(HL-의학/건강) Sweet Potatoes as Medicine

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We Americans have an expression‎: “If you give a person a fish, they will eat for a day. If you teach a person to fish, they can eat for a lifetime.” One way to explain this is that helping people grow their own food is a better way to fight hunger. That is the purpose of an agricultural research organization called HarvestPlus. HarvestPlus is teaching people around the world how to grow what it calls “smart” crops. Its project in Mozambique is having surprising effects.
* lifetime = 일생, 평생, 생애/ fight hunger = 기근[기아, 배고픔]과 싸우다/ agricultural research = 농업연구  

In 2006, HarvestPlus workers provided orange sweet potato plants to people in 24 Mozambique villages. The workers taught these people how to grow the vegetables. They also explained the importance of Vitamin A to staying healthy. Farmers in Mozambique had been planting white and yellow sweet potatoes, not the orange-colored ones. The white and yellow potatoes have very little Vitamin A. However, one small, orange sweet potato has a full day’s supply of Vitamin A. A lack of Vitamin A is dangerous. Without enough Vitamin A, you face an increased risk of getting a serious disease or dying from infections. Around the world, 190 million young children are not getting enough of this important vitamin in the foods they eat. That number comes from the World Health Organization.
* sweet potato = 고구마/ stay healthy = 건강을 유지하다/ a full day's supply of ~ = ~의 하루 섭취분/ a lack of ~ = ~의 부족[결핍]/ face = (상황에[이]) 직면하다[닥쳐오다]/ infection = 전염병; 감염/ the World Health Organization = 세계보건기구(世界保健機構)

Sweet Potatoes as Medicine - WTS.mp3