Lulu has been having some fatigue problems and went to her Doctor. Turns out she has iron-deficiency anemia.
She doesn't like the Ferrous Sulfate pills very much - upsets her stomach. You want to take them with some Vitamin C to aid absorption so I dissolved them in a mason jar of orange juice and she takes a sip every hour or so. Problem solved.
Turns out that Cambodians have an endemic iron deficiency in their population - 60% of pregnant women and 40% of the general population. In 2008, some Canadian health-workers developed a small cast-iron fish (Cambodian symbol of good luck) to be placed in the cooking pot with a bit of lemon juice. The average villager using one of these is able to obtain about 75% of the daily recommended dietary iron.
Project website is here: Lucky Iron Fish
Very clever idea - they went through a bunch of shapes and the villagers would not use them - a disk, a lotus blossom, etc... Finally, a Cambodian mentioned that the fish was a lucky symbol and now over 95% of the households use theirs on a regular basis.