Top 10 Foods Highest in Zinc Zinc is an essential mineral required by the body for maintaining a sense of smell, keeping a healthy immune system, building proteins, triggering enzymes, and creating DNA. Zinc also helps the cells in your body communicate by functioning as a neurotransmitter. A deficiency in zinc can lead to stunted growth, diarrhea, impotence, hair loss, eye and skin lesions, impaired appetite, and depressed immunity. #1: Seafood (Cooked Oysters)Other Seafood High in Zinc (%DV per 3oz cooked): Crab (43%), and Lobster (41%). #2: Beef and Lamb (Cooked Lean Beef Shortribs)Lamb is also a good source of Zinc (%DV per 3oz cooked): Lean Foreshank (49%), Lean Shoulder (46%) and Lean Cubed Lamb for Stewing (37%). #3: Wheat Germ (Toasted)Crude or Untoasted Wheat Germ is also a good source of Zinc providing 94% DV per cup:. #4: SpinachOther Green Leafy Vegetables High in Zinc (%DV per cup): Amaranth Leaves, cooked (8%), and Endive and Radiccio, raw (2%).
Five Great Startup Tips From Successful Entrepreneurs 4 Must Know To-Do Lists To Prioritize Tasks Do you often feel overwhelmed by the amount of work you have, or have you missed an important deadline? Or have you ever forgotten to do something important? These are symptoms of lacking organizational skills needed to prioritize tasks with a proper to-do list. Leverage Your Organizational Skills Your ability to improve your organizational skills and prioritize tasks is a measure of your overall competence. One of your top goals at work should be for you to prioritize tasks by using your organizational skills to get the highest possible return on your investment of mental, emotional and physical energy. Create Your To-Do List Put your organizational skills to work and prioritize tasks by always working from a list. Improve your organizational skills and make out your to-do list the night before, at the end of the workday. Time Management Tools Learn how to prioritize tasks and get more done in less time by taking this complete Time Management Assessment for FREE by clicking HERE.
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Zinc Introduction Zinc is an essential mineral that is naturally present in some foods, added to others, and available as a dietary supplement. Zinc is also found in many cold lozenges and some over-the-counter drugs sold as cold remedies. Zinc is involved in numerous aspects of cellular metabolism. Recommended Intakes Intake recommendations for zinc and other nutrients are provided in the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) developed by the Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) at the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (formerly National Academy of Sciences) [2]. Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA): average daily level of intake sufficient to meet the nutrient requirements of nearly all (97%–98%) healthy individuals. The current RDAs for zinc are listed in Table 1 [2]. * Adequate Intake (AI) Sources of Zinc Food A wide variety of foods contain zinc (Table 2) [2]. * DV = Daily Value. The U.S. Zinc is also present in some denture adhesive creams at levels ranging from 17–34 mg/g [17].
Starting in business On this page you will find links to guidance on what you need to do for tax and National Insurance purposes when you start up a business as a self-employed person, a partnership or a limited company. You will also find links to additional help and support HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) offer new businesses. On this page: What you need to do when you start a business Follow the links below to guidance on what you need to do for tax and National Insurance purposes when you start a business including return filing and paying deadlines and what records you must keep. Self-employed tax and National Insurance Tax returns for partners and partnerships Starting up a limited company Getting started with VAT PAYE for employers Construction Industry Scheme Record keeping Importing and exporting goods and services Top Help and support for new businesses HMRC's help and support for businesses When you need to send payments and tax returns A calendar giving you all the dates of key tax deadlines in one place.
IELTS Preparation Case study: Band 7.5 in just 10 days. | IELTS-Blog Hey, you're new here! I love new people, welcome. You may want to subscribe to IELTS-Blog and get all the updates via email or via RSS feed. Inokoue, a student from Malaysia says: “Hi Simone! It’s going to be a great weekend for me! Speaking 8.5, Listening 8.5, Reading 6.5, Writing 7! Overall: 7.5!!! I am so so happy! Thank you so much. Background Inokoue is a student from Malaysia, who had to take the IELTS test to be accepted to a university in another country. In that short period of time Inokoue managed to raise the score from around 6.5 to 7.5 overall, with band 8.5 for both Speaking and Listening. Apart from reading Target Band 7 and practicing for 10 days Inokoque didn’t have to do ANYTHING. Objective Inokoue urgently needed to get IELTS Band Score of 7 or above within 10 days of studying. Strategy Inokoue estimated her band score by solving IELTS practice tests and found out that it needs to go from 6.5 up to 7 or above. Execution How: A. B. How: A. B. A. B. Results After the exam
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Education | Can you teach entrepreneurship? Can you teach someone to be the next Henry Ford or Richard Branson? Is business enterprise in your genes or can it be taught in the classroom? The government clearly believes that enterprise should be on the school curriculum. In the recent Budget, Gordon Brown announced a further £180m over three years to continue funding for enterprise education in the UK. That's about £17,000 a year for each average size secondary school. The scheme has been running for several years, yet many schools are still scratching their collective scalp, trying to work out just what enterprise education involves. Kitchen success Well, I've just met one young man who is well placed to tell them. Fraser Doherty is only 18 and completing his first year of a business studies degree at Strathclyde University. He has found success through jamming - no, not the musical variety, common enough amongst students, but the fruit-based version. Something had to give. Schooling 'Take risks' So what are schools supposed to teach?
Left Brain – Right brain and the Spinning Girl Take a look at the spinning girl below. Do you see it spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise? I see it spinning counter-clockwise, and I had a hard time getting it to switch direction. Give it a try. These kinds of optical illusions are always fun. The spinning girl is a form of the more general spinning silhouette illusion. By looking around the image, focusing on the shadow or some other part, you may force your visual system to reconstruct the image and it may choose the opposite direction, and suddenly the image will spin in the opposite direction. This news article, like many others, ignores the true source of this optical illusion and instead claims it is a quick test to see if you use more of your right brain or left brain. We also do have hemispheric dominance, but that determines mostly your handedness and the probability of language being on the right or the left. Addendum: This was sent to me by a reader. The text is almost complete nonsense.
Doing the Right Things is More Important than Doing Things Right Yesterday I wrote a post about top-down versus bottom-up thinking. There is a corollary to that advice, which is “doing the right things is more important than doing things right.” Sounds simple but in practice I promise you most organization fall into the latter trap. Here’s how it goes: You have a business development group with two people. You have a marketing department with three people. When you hire people in functional roles they want to show that they’re achieving results and results are easiest to measure by tasks accomplished. So many CEO’s just carry on being … CEO’s –> fund raise, get media attention, attend conferences, hire staff, “set direction”, whatever. Let me give you an example. It’s why I’ve often start when running marketing campaigns the most simple of questions: - with whom are we trying to communicate? And the reality is that you might be better off doing less activity but doing “the right” activities really well. Similar with product features.
Network of 75 Million Neurons of the Mouse Brain Mapped for the First Time Network of 75 Million Neurons of the Mouse Brain Mapped for the First Time With improved visualization tools and souped-up computers to crunch the massive numbers involved in studying the 100 billion neurons in the human brain, many researchers, including the U.S. government, are trying to map the brain’s wiring, or “connectome.” Some researchers have dived right in to studying the massive human brain, but others see the mouse brain, with just 75 million neurons, as a more logical place to start. A new atlas of study results related to the mouse connectome offers the equivalent of a highway map, with local roads to be filled in later. The atlas, described in a recent paper in Nature, represents more than four years of work undertaken at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, a private nonprofit funded by a grant by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. It’s the most detailed information we have on the brain of any animal other than that of the roundworm C. elegans, which has just 302 neurons.
Events Often Overtake Companies I've found myself saying "events overtake companies" a lot this week. I'm not sure exactly why it was the phrase of the past week, but I did spend a lot of time talking to entrepreneurs running businesses that are growing rapidly, causing the founders to rethink their strategic plans. I think less than 20% of the companies we back end up doing what they started out planning on doing. They build something, get it into the market, and then things happen. There are two big takeaways from this for me: 1) Don't get too attached to your strategic plan. 2) Don't spend too much time on planning. I would spend as little time as possible on the planning and focus instead on turning their prototype into a working system and getting that out into the real world. But don't take this post as a dismissal of the value of strategy and strategic planning.