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How dentists should treat patients’ keto breath
Tammy Hinojos Oral & Dental HealthcareWith the ever-increasing popularity of the keto diet, dentists are fielding questions from patients about the notorious "keto breath" and what can be done about it. A ketogenic diet involves eating a diet made up of foods that are high in fat and protein but very low in carbohydrates. One unpleasant side effect is what people call keto breath, often described as fruity or sweet. If you have patients who ask what they can do about their keto breath, here are some tips.
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Experiential marketing is in. Is your packaging creating an experience?
Corey Gustafson MarketingExperiential marketing is about making your consumers feel truly immersed in the experience of your product. An often-overlooked opportunity for experiential marketing is packaging. Packaging provides companies with the opportunity to make their product even more interactive. By utilizing interactive elements in the opening experience and aesthetic of the packaging, you create a whole new realm of experiential opportunity. Let’s discuss how you can create an experience through packaging alone.
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Alone, but not lonely: The rejuvenating benefits of solitude
Victoria Fann Mental HealthcareWhile loneliness is an epidemic in this country with half of Americans admitting they feel lonely, being alone isn’t all bad. In fact, it’s good. I’m not talking about extreme isolation here, which can severely impact mental and physical health. Instead, I’m talking about good, old-fashioned quiet time. However, with smartphones, smartwatches, tablets, computers, and most recently AI, are we ever really alone? A new field of study called interruption science, which studies how interruptions affect human performance, found that, on average, we are interrupted every 11 minutes and that it takes almost 25 minutes to recover from a phone call.
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Study: 3 in 10 toddlers spending less than 3 hours outside per week
Jackie Cambridge Medical & Allied HealthcareA recent study by Kiddi Caru asked U.K. parents about the amount of outdoor time their child gets, weather permitting. 31% said they get three hours or less weekly outdoor time, in spite of 100% of respondents agreeing that outdoor time is crucial to a child’s development. This is surprisingly little, considering the same percentage (31%) get two to three hours of screen time per day, with 11% getting over four hours daily.
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Why minority students get inferior educations: School funds and teacher…
Patrick Gleeson EducationPublic schools in the U.S. are generally funded by a combination of federal, state and local governments. If the system were designed to succeed, the allocation of funds might be based primarily on need. In such a system, some additional moneys might go to those school districts whose students’ needs were the most acute. This idea runs so counter to the way things actually work as to seem at first almost heretical. This article describes various problems that further contribute to the inferiority of the educational experience offered to minority and especially low-income minority students.
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Study: Cardiac resuscitation outside the hospital performed less frequently…
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareAlthough death and disability have been significantly reduced by bystander interventions such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) was the third leading cause of health loss due to disease in the U.S. behind ischemic heart disease and low back/neck pain, according to the most recent data. In a recent study, led by cardiologist Dr. Hanno Tan at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, researchers aimed to provide a comprehensive overall view on sex differences in care utilization and outcome of OHCA.
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8 great ways wine may make you healthier
Lisa Mulcahy Medical & Allied HealthcareYou probably didn’t need any more reasons to have a glass of wine after work. However, your favorite beverage can help make you healthier than ever! Read on for eight ways research has shown wine to be beneficial to the human body.
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Does sex still sell in today’s business world?
Linchi Kwok Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementClique Hotels & Resorts is a Canadian luxury hotel chain with properties in Calgary and Canmore, Alberta. According to CityNews, a media firm in Canada, the hotel’s website featured some "suggestive" and "sexist" photos, bringing in some backlash from social media. To some extent, those featured photos match the hotel chain’s slogan: "Sleep with the Best!" In this case, sex does indeed gets people’s attention, but it is uncertain such attention will help the hotel chain bring in more sales.
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You can have too much friction, but can you also have too little?
Linda Popky Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementFriction-free. Smooth sailing. Highly collaborative organizations. Harmonious team dynamics. These are all sought-after states for most organizations. After all, who wants to introduce tension or friction when you could have a calm, stable organization, right? You do, of course. That’s because calm, smooth, friction-free organizations don’t push the envelope to try new and creative ideas, they don’t fully explore possibilities, and they don’t use internal dialogue to vet ideas and concepts before they hit the external market.
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Human-centered design is the secret sauce for open-plan success
Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & FixturesOpen-plan workspaces have been given quite a thrashing in recent years. The more ubiquitous they become, the more employees and critics complain about how awful they are to work in. What makes the difference? Designers will not be surprised to learn that, according to recent research, the major factor is the quality of the interior design. Drawing on what is now an extensive body of research, most workspaces now are designed to promote certain kinds of employee behaviors found to be linked to important business goals, such as more rapid innovation and increased productivity.