Clinical pharmacist Carrie Beth Smith discusses dietary supplements and their role in wellness
Dietary supplements are intended to complement a diet and provide what a person may lack nutritionally based on daily habits, medicines they’re taking or other outside factors. “Supplements [cover] a multitude of things. Whether we’re talking about vitamins, minerals, herbal products, it’s anything that we use to add to … whatever lifestyle choices you have […]
Bankers Are Hiring Cyber-Security Experts to Help Get Deals Done
Global threats, recent WannaCry ransom attack fuel awareness Cybersecurity will increasingly become part of deal-vetting Executives and investors are hiring an unlikely crowd to help them do deals: computer geeks. Companies and investment funds are adding an extra layer of scrutiny to acquisitions by screening targets for cybersecurity risks, as global computer attacks raise awareness. […]
Buffett Bullish on Canada But Not as Much on Its Housing: Globe
The city skyline is seen from a condominium under construction in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on Tuesday, June 25 2013. Canadas housing agency further trimmed its forecast for housing starts this year amid modest economic and employment growth. Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg Warren Buffett may have thrown a lifeline to embattled Canadian alternative lender Home Capital Group […]
We Went to Sears For The First Time In More Than 10 Years and Instantly Saw Why It’s Dying
I haven’t been inside a Sears store for more than 10 years, until Thursday, June 22. And, wow, did I learn a lot. Mainly, I came away with a better understanding of why Sears Holdings Corp. (SHLD) is closing an additional 20 stores on top of the 245 it already planned to shutter. And why it […]