Word: pyramidally
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Eating healthy can be difficult, especially during finals. To make the task easier, the Harvard School of Public Health has just revamped its user-friendly food pyramid model. The department of nutrition at the school has relaunched its Web site, www.thenutritionsource.org, complete with a free, downloadable version of its Healthy Eating Pyramid. The pyramid was updated by researchers at the school to present the latest data in a clear, straightforward way. “We want to have the latest science available to the public in a way that can help them to eat well and stay healthy...
...private sector and the public sector can work together to improve living conditions for impoverished Latin Americans. Luis A. Moreno, president of the Inter-American Development Bank, talked about the past inclinations of the Latin American private sector, which focused on the higher classes of the economic pyramid and on external markets. “Those companies that did not enter the international arena did so at their own peril, and many disappeared,” Moreno said. “Yet there is an opportunity today for growth and innovation, and an even bigger opportunity to leverage...
...sweets. According to the HSPH site, these items “can cause fast and furious increases in blood sugar that can lead to weight gain, diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic disorders.” Although HSPH experts say that the items at the top of the pyramid should be used “sparingly,” HUDS has actually increased their presence in the dining halls in the face of higher costs. Rather than remove the most nutritional options from dining halls in favor of cheaper, unhealthful alternatives, HUDS should cut back on its least nutritional fare...
...create a fracture in society; a coup de théâtre, to show how modern and advanced [the Socialists] were." Her husband Enrique Trabado, a lawyer for a major construction firm, provides another rationale for promoting traditional families. "This model forms an economic pyramid," he says. "The current generation must always pay for the pensions of the older generation...
...familiar with the techniques Chinese bloggers use to evade the authorities and managed to have his blog reappear on the Internet almost immediately by using proxy servers and mirror sites outside China. But Zhou's luck ran out when he traveled to Shenyang to interview victims of a pyramid scheme involving a supposed aphrodisiac powder made from crushed ants. Victims handed over cash and were told they would get a guaranteed 30% annual return if they kept supplying the ants. Eventually, the scheme collapsed and hundreds of defrauded investors demonstrated repeatedly outside local government headquarters. After talking with some...