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Medium: "People create better things together."

Medium is a community website that publishes articles from writers who collaborate to help each other create better material before publication.

The website is a great place for business people to get stimulating ideas from outside their work and community. The writers are from all over the world and have a variety of skills and interests. Their point of view and information can be very refreshing, especially in a world so dominated by

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7 Simple Steps for Creating a Presentation for Any Situation

When I worked at Procter & Gamble, I took a sales training course that provided a presentation model that works for any situation. At Procter & Gamble, this course was called the 5-Steps to persuasive selling. Xerox had actually developed the original course as the 7-steps to professional selling (PSS).

Let’s say that tomorrow you have a meeting. This meeting could be a job interview. The meeting might be with your board of directors to

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Be Extraordinary: Set a Pace that Enables You To Be More Productive.

Performance takes energy.

Peak performance takes knowing the pace for the race to use energy most effectively.

I ran a 10K run in which I was wildly excited to get started.

I came out and set my pace as closely as I could to the runners who appeared to be the best runners in the event.

Along about three miles, I was done. I was so exhausted that I decided that the smartest thing that

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What is a Gluten-Free Diet and How Will the Increasing Consumer Interests in Gluten-Free Diets Affect Your Job?

GLUTEN-FREE DIETS Gluten-free diets have become swept into the overall concerns that consumers have with food additives, genetic modifications, preservatives, pesticides, and herbicides. Whether gluten is unhealthy or not unhealthy, the general evolving thinking is that many consumers had just as soon avoid gluten products.

I first heard of gluten at a food trade show perhaps ten years ago. Today, many people tend to consider gluten, a protein found in grain products, as simply being

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GMO Labeling Effort Reaches Washington

GMO labeling has been on the legislation table for years.

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) introduced the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act, legislation that would require the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to label genetically engineered (GE) foods so that consumers can make informed choices about what they eat.

In 2012, GMO labeling legislation failed as a proposition measure in Boxer’s state of California.

Fazio and

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Regulators Get Wrigley to Pull Caffeine Gum, but They're Not Scaring Monster - brandchannel

According to brandchannel, Wrigley has decided to pull Alert caffeinated gum from the market. Monster Energy Drinks remains insistent that their products are safe.

FOOD navigator-usa.com reported April 30, 2013 that the FDA was reviewing the health effects of caffeinated food products on children.

Caffeinated-food products have become very common. “Jelly Belly Extreme Sport Beans

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15 Minutes A Day That Will Enrich Your Life

REMAIN A STUDENT FOR LIFE

One of the most enriching parts of my life is continuing to study. Along with other things, I read textbooks or books on developing skills. I read magazines and online articles about new things that I am doing.

I AM NO GENIUS.

Nor am I crazy about sitting down and reading a five-hundred page textbook. What I do is that I read for 15 minutes or so a day. Over

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Dietary Supplements: U.S. Food and Drug Administration Website

Dietary Supplements

FDA regulates both finished dietary supplement products and dietary ingredients. FDA regulates dietary supplements under a different set of regulations than those covering "conventional" foods and drug products. Under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA):

The manufacturer of a dietary supplement or dietary ingredient is responsible for ensuring that the product is safe before it is marketed.

FDA is responsible for taking action against any unsafe dietary supplement product

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