It is suggested that children's diet be rearranged and zinc be provided for zinc-deficient children in order to promote their physical and intelligence development.

Five of their top ten involved nutrition: vitamin supplements for children, adding zinc and iodine to salt and breeding extra micronutrients into crops (like those sweet potatoes).

Treatment for sick children with Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) combined with zinc supplements is safe, cost-effective, and saves lives.