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Re:A lucky little fish solves iron deficiency among women in... by pcrh on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @04:24PM (#8889192)
OK, I searched a bit and found an article from 2011, which appears to be the original source (free access [1]). It appears that aluminum is the most common material from which local pots were made.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011....

Re:A lucky little fish solves iron deficiency among women in... by thizzbuzz on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @08:59PM (#8890489)
Correct, it is hard to find anything other than aluminum pots here.
Re:A lucky little fish solves iron deficiency among women in... by SiVal on Thursday January 15, 2015 @03:58AM (#8891532)
In rural Asia, cast iron tends to be--relative to flimsy aluminum--too expensive, too heavy (a large percentage of those doing the cooking weigh less than 100lbs/45kg), and too poor at conducting heat and too good at absorbing it (thermal inertia), meaning that more cooking fuel is required to cook small meals in cast iron pots than in aluminum.