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...yogurt raw? Peanut butter? Oil-and-vinegar salad dressing? Like most raw-foodists--who are predominantly vegan and believe that cooking robs food of most of its nutrition--I wound up eating only fruit, vegetables, nuts and seeds. I was living exclusively on the bottom of the new nutritional pyramid...
...current Indian government, a coalition led by the left-of-center Congress party and communists and other leftist groups, has promised more inclusive growth since it came to power in early 2004. Many Indian business leaders now talk about the wealth at the bottom of the pyramid and say they are focused on how to improve the lives of India's hundreds of millions of poor."The economic growth we are experiencing must not be at the expense of social awareness and social responsibility," said Congress leader Sonia Gandhi in a speech at the conference in which she called...
...entrees] over the coming week,” Martin said. According to Martin, HUDS receives nutrition information from the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). “We use the tenets of Dr. Walter Willett’s Healthy Eating Pyramid to guide our menus and the nutrition information we share with students,” Martin said, referring to a nutritional aid developed by researchers at HSPH. “That said,” Martin added, “we believe very much in the student’s right to make...
...that Ratan Tata finds the rich uninteresting--after all he's one of them. No, it's more the case that he finds the opportunities to be richer at the bottom end of the consumer universe. "Everyone is catering to the top of the pyramid," says the 69-year-old at his office in Bombay House, the Tata group's elegant Edwardian headquarters in India's business capital. "The challenge we've given to all our companies is to address a different market. Pare your margins. Create new markets...
What really excites Tata is his ability to combine the group's philanthropic heritage with modern business sense. Targeting the bottom of the income pyramid ticks both boxes. Tata points out that consumption, as it is understood in the West, is still a dream for all but a fraction of 3 billion people in the developing world. Only 58 million Indians, out of the country's 1.1 billion population, earn more than $4,400 a year, according to New Delhi's National Council of Applied Economic Research. The challenge is to make consumers out of people whose disposable income...