While in the past, medical professionals thought that it was important to "rest the gut" during diarrhea, this notion has since been discredited (11). Studies have shown that the resting gut rapidly atrophies, such that levels of digestive enzymes fall and the absorption of nutrients worsens. Appropriate feeding is now recognized as a crucial element of ORT (12, 13), especially in populations at risk for malnutrition. And while Jamaica had reduced its prevalence of malnourished children to 3.9% by the year 2000, there are millions more children in developing countries who are still malnourished.