The Nutritional Benefits Of Folic Acid
The debate about the necessity of taking dietary supplements is still alive. While numerous doctors maintain we get all that we require from the foods we eat, others prefer to offer supplementary vitamins when their patients are under stress such as pregnancy, illness or even aging. Studies have shown that taking supplementary B group vitamins, specifically folic acid and B12 have reduced birth defects from 72 to 100 . Since regulations authorizing the addition of folic acid to grains have come into play, the incidence of birth defects in the United States has lessened by 19 , though skeptics claim there could be alternate reasons. - Symptoms of folate deficiency. If your tongue is swollen and you suffer from loss of appetite, shortness of breath, are irritable, forgetful and mentally sluggish, you may have a folate deficiency. Folic acid is one of the B group of vitamins. Most animal and plant foods are poor sources of it. The exception is liver which most folks do not eat a lot of these days. Various habits and diseases...
Keeping Your Offerings Easy To Use Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, we explored a formula for customer happiness -- through the lens of what makes customers unhappy. One reason for customer frustration is that over time, many products and services tend to evolve, eventually becoming too complicated and difficult to use. In Part 2 this article , we ll probe more deeply into how to reverse this trend by simplifying what we have to offer. A Quick Review of the Ease-of-Use Basics In Part 1, we recognized that consumers expect our offerings to work exactly as advertised. Yet our products and services can introduce complex requirements and burdens of their own, some of which can even prevent customers from doing what they were trying to accomplish in the first place. When this occurs, buyers not only fail to become raving fans, they often take their business elsewhere without ever telling us why. We then explored four ease-of-use considerations: -- Designing offerings to function as simply as possible, without adding busywork -- Striving to support customers primary...
The History Of The Printing Press
The publication, The Diamond Sutra appeared in 868 AD and the print type was most certainly made from clay. Others insist that there were earlier examples of printed books or certainly sheets, but experts have not come forward with either evidence or titles. However, there is a lot of evidence telling us the first printing press originated in what is now modern day Germany, which at the time comprised a series of princely states. The first, or the Guttenberg Press came into being somewhere between 1436 and 1440. The inventor, Johannes Gutenberg was a goldsmith and inventor. The typeface was composed of at first wooden and then later metal letters. It is probably true to say that this invention played a very significant part in the shaping of thinking and learning in the history of the World. Prior to Gutenberg books had to be copied, by hand usually by monks who acted as scribes. These illuminated manu s were truly beautiful pieces of work, but the costs involved put them well beyond the means of the ordinary man in...