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Understanding the Alkaline Diet - Pros and Cons

 Understanding the Alkaline Diet - Pros and Cons   Business An active lifestyle starts with a healthy diet. Your exercise regimen and diet eventually determines the way you look. Of course, there are unlimited diet plans, and the alkaline diet is one of them. Does it actually work? What are the pros and cons? In this post, we will try to shed more light on some of these aspects. The Basics: The alkaline diet has been around for some time now, but it came in the spotlight after Victoria Beckham tweeted about it. The diet is simple – Eat alkaline-promoting foods, and you can keep diseases at bay! So, the diet mainly focuses on eating healthy things like fruits and veggies, and you can also have some nuts, seeds and a few lentils. On the contrary, you have to quit most of the food that you are used to, including grains, meat, and dairy. Also, caffeine and alcohol are not allowed either. You cannot have any form of packaged or processed food. Pros at a Glance: First things first, ...

A Solid Onboarding Process IS Necessary for your Company

 A Solid Onboarding Process IS Necessary for your Company   Education   On the aisles of the expo hall at IHRIM '08 in Orlando last month were no less than a dozen vendors with an onboarding product. It didn't take much more than three booth stops to come to the conclusion that there are as many definitions of onboarding as there are vendors selling onboarding products. For that matter, there are additional definitions for each consulting firm and HR industry analyst that writes on the topic of onboarding. So what, then, is onboarding? Can a universal definition of onboarding be written?   Ask a vendor with an onboarding product what onboarding is, and their answer is likely to be skewed in the direction of the strengths of their own product. Instead, ask an HR professional what employee onboarding is and they will universally define onboarding simply as moving a candidate for a role into that role. The candidate can be new to the organization, or may alre...