I tell my entrepreneurship students to be observant, look for the unmet need, figure out if meeting that need can be a business…

Is it any wonder we’re getting wider but not necessarily taller? So wondered John Peters last week at the Arkansas Biosciences Institute’s Fall Research Symposium.

How do we support good health for all?

That was the question posed Friday by John Peters, PhD, of Proctor & Gamble’s R&D division. Peters asked it under the backdrop of data from the World Health Organization that indicates almost as many people worldwide suffer from overnutrition (more than 1.5 billion) as from undernutrition (2 billion).