North Korea claims candy helps kids grow

[Hellfighter]

Report: North Korea claims candy helps kids grow
Friday, May 27, 2005 Posted: 10:59 AM EDT (1459 GMT)

SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) -- Candy may be dandy for North Korean children trying to grow tall, strong and smart in a country battling chronic food shortages.

North Korea has developed a candy it claims is good for children and will help them increase their height, weight and IQ, a pro-North Korea newspaper published in Japan said on Friday.

"Unlike medications that help growth by clinical methods or hormonal effects, the growth nutritional candy has no negative side effects," the Choson Sinbo said, based on an interview with the head of a nutritional research center in the North.

Unlike sugar-packed and chocolate-covered sweets, the North is hoping that children in the reclusive state will enjoy munching on their nutritional candy made of seaweed, beans, carrots and sesame seeds, the newspaper said.

The candy report comes on the same day a top U.N. agency official said the food shortage crisis in North Korea is growing more severe by the day and the communist state is dispensing "starvation rations" to its population.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapc...eut/index.html

N-Korea having a hard time feeding kids and whole families they have a birth contour that is not like any other countrys around the world, kill the whole family off no more trouble to feed them or any trouble with birth-contour at all.

OMG whats next they calling to call this and that gee. sorry i don't believe a word of them having a Candie that can replace food for a baby.

i find it real laughable the things they come up with. what next joke hardliner will they come up?

[BADDOG]

Nothing those madmen in North Korea claim surprises me Chief but this really takes the biscuit or is it candy lol????

Warm Regards

[atholon]

That is sad. I feel bad for the people that don't share their views in N Korea but are force to or be put to death.

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and I just threw away half of a snickers bar... What kind of country starves it children....

answer: a dead one

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