diabetes, goiter, osteoporosis, mental retardation, sub-health, and more.

“Half of Ethiopia’s children are malnourished, and most do not die. Some suffer a different fate. Robbed of vital nutrients as children, they grow up stunted and sickly, weaklings in a land that still runs on manual labor. Some become intellectually stunted adults, shorn of as many as 15 I.Q. points, unable to learn or even to concentrate - inclined to drop out of school early.” (New York Times, December 28, 2006)

London’s The Guardian reported October 30, 2006: “When governments meet today and tomorrow in Rome to assess how far they have gone towards meeting their pledge to halve hunger by 2015, the mood will be somber.

“The goal is moving out of sight. New figures from the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will show not a reduction but an increase of more than 25 million chronically undernourished people since 1996. The figure now stands at more than 850 million (…).”

And that figure is growing by 2.5 million each year.

These 850 million hungry people (more than two and one-half times the population of North America) are part of the 2.2 billion people (one-third of the world’s population) estimated by the World Health Organization WHO (WHO) in 2002 to suffer from malnutrition.

As CARE states in its 2007 report on nutrition; “Every minute of every day somewhere in the world 21 children die of hunger or malnutrition or preventable disease. Even when it doesn’t kill, it can cause blindness, deformities and brain damage. That’s the shocking truth. But we don’t have to accept it. We can choose to stop it.”

THE JIU HUA NUTRITION REVELUTION
There is a better way. The Nutrition Revolution of Jiu Hua Food holds the promise of becoming a major weapon in defeating hunger and malnutrition around the world. Jiu Hua Food reduces the need for more food by more efficiently and effectively using nutrients already eaten.

So far, the weapons of the war on hunger have been two: First, grow more food; and, second, improve distribution systems to deliver food to those in need. Our world is experiencing global warming and increased desertification. Needless to say, new crop land and the water to irrigate it are increasingly rare commodities. Replacing forests with cultivated land speeds the ecological doom loop. Even when additional crops are produced, transportation, storage, and distribution of millions of tons of food devour precious energy and other resources.

The digestive process is not efficient. That is why excrement is such good fertilizer. Digestion claims only a portion of the nutrients contained in ingested food. The remaining nutrients pass through the body.

Conversion of food to Jiu Hua Food (Patent CN1602752) causes alcohol molecules to bind onto alimentation molecules of any food. It eliminates free alcohol and its associated effects but takes advantage of the body’s ability to quickly and completely absorb alcohol to increase absorbed nourishment. Therefore, by eating Jiu Hua Food, people will receive more nutritional benefit from the food they already consume.

Production of Jiu Hua Food requires no sophisticated facilities. Therefore it can be economically accomplished without huge factories.

Jiu Hua Food exemplifies the trimtab principle by using a small amount of resource to materially improve the nutritional value of food and it can be applied close to the end use point. Just like an airplanes trimtab is located as far from the cockpit as possible - at the control surface trailing edge. Jiu Hua treatment can be done locally where the need exists. The cost to convert milk to Jiu Hua Milk is less than $15.00 USD per ton ($.06 /gal)

Production of Jiu Hua Food is ecologically sound as its raw materials are only edible plants all of which can be, and most already are, grown anywhere in the world. They require no chemical fertilizers. There is no waste as 100% of the byproducts are usable for feed or fertilizer. Since it more efficiently uses already available food, additional land, water, and other resources are trifling. Nor does it require investment in transportation and fuel to bring increased production to market. The resource cost is negligible.

Much malnutrition in industrialized nations occurs in people who are not hungry. Carbohydrates are cheap while meat, fresh fruits, and vegetables with nutritious proteins, vitamins, and minerals are not. As a result, low income people lack these important nutrients. By focusing Jiu Hua enrichment on the missing nutrients, focused nutritional improvements can be achieved.

Conceivably, Jiu Hua Food could become accepted in everyday diets and even reduce the current levels of food production thus freeing more resources and allowing for more organic growing practices as well as lowering current resource consumption.

The value of Jiu Hua Food could not be underestimated in providing emergency rations for disaster relief.

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Seventy per cent of the prize money will be spent to answer key developmental questions.

In tests using Jiu Hua milk, ginseng, and Rhizoma Gastrodiae (an herbal Traditional Chinese Medicine) performed on rabbits, Mr. Xu, clearly demonstrates that absorption of Jiu Hua Food begins more quickly and more nutrition is retained. This was determined by analyzing test subjects’ blood and stool samples at intervals following ingestion of the test and control foods. Additional testing must be done on other foods to determine absorption rates for proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and water.

Since we know now what happens, we must determine how much. To answer these questions, we need to test further to quantify the increase in the nutrient absorption rates. This information is necessary to understand and adjust dietary intake standards. For example, if protein absorption doubles, a person currently getting 50% of the MDR (Minimum Daily Requirement) of protein would now be receiving 100% of his/hers MDR needs met without changing their dietary intake.

The theory suggests a “corona” effect - that is, if non-Jiu Hua meat is eaten at the same time as Jiu Hua Milk, the absorption of nutrients from the meat is also increased. This needs quantification.

Some of the above tests would be conducted by Mr. Xu or any number of Chinese universities. There are at least two Chinese institutions able to conduct human subject tests.

Operations research to identify optimal methods of production is also appropriate. It will also help determine “break points” where production steps could be geographically decentralized from a primary production facility.

PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION
The initial focus on recruiting partners will be to approach those which have policies and funds to contribute to completion of the human testing such as UNICEF， the Gates Foundation, and other private foundations (possibly Robert Wood Johnson, or Nestles). Subsequently we will focus our efforts on geographic areas with the highest malnutrition such as sub-Saharan Africa, developing nations in Asia, etc. To introduce Jiu Hua Food to these regions we will seek partnership with agencies with extant culturally sensitive distribution systems in the war against hunger such as:
• UN, through its sub-agencies FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) and UNICEF, which engaged currently distributes vitamin, mineral, and protein enriched foods, and vitamin supplements;
• WHO, which has active initiatives on nutrition operating through world regional offices and emphasizes collaborative nutrition;
• Ezra Taft Benson Agriculture and Food Science Institute, which has soy fortified tortilla program in Guatemala.
• Gates Foundation, which has named malnutrition as a priority in its campaign against AIDS.

We project 30% of the prize money will be spent preparing and presenting proposals to these and other agencies to engage them in this cause. A key concept in distribution is that of licensing production near areas of need.

IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE
With distribution through these partner organizations, it is difficult to accurately project time frames for completion or the intermediate steps in the process since distribution will be through as yet undesignated existing organizations and programs. Reasonable projections are that:
• Animal studies would be completed six months following the prize award.
• Human tests could then be designed and conducted the following year. Since all the ingredients of Jiu Hua Food are already commonly ingested by humans, little risk is involved in human studies. The main focus will be to determine dietary intake to match the improved nutritional absorption rates of the Jiu Hua Foods.
• Manufacturing research would overlap other research beginning near the end of the animal studies with final results determined within a few months following completion of human studies.
• Initial field tests and demonstrations could be designed to begin following thorough review of the human study results.

A truly joyful nutrition revolution!