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Website Branding Challenge..

Branding? We usually hear branding especially on website design, but the question is do we understand what it means? Branding is a way or process so that your products, services or company will be known. Branding in complex in nature, but think of it this way, visually how do you want your products, services, or company be perceive by it's users. How do you want to be known? Initially on a website design, logo is very important. Yeah I know! But how will you brand and existing website? What if they ask you to brand an already known company. How will you do it? Challenging huh! Are you going to rebrand the company itself, change logo, color of websites, change of taglines to convey the new marketing strategy for branding, changed published materials, etc etc.? At what extent of changes will you do for the sake of the so-called "branding"? Just a thought....

Iodine free diet challenge for thyroid cancer patient

Iodine is normally needed by our thyroid to perform normally to produce thyroid hormones. Thyroid hormones also contributes a large factor to our digestive system and other parts of the body. For a cancer patient, usually thyroid hormones are being controlled to a low level, this is to prevent the cancer from recurring, and Iodine plays a great role here. Usually cancer patient has low iodine diet. The challenge here is before the body scan of a thyroid cancer patient and before the RAI (Radioactive Iodine) therapy. In preparation for my father's RAI and body scan (checking the levels of cancer on the body), his nuclear doctor advised to stop taking the thyrax medicine and an  iodine free diet for iodine and calcium as well. Iodine and calcium should not be present to foods. That means no dairy products like cheese, milk, egg, and etc. He stops the intake of Prosure and Sustagen Premium which is the hardest part since he needs to have more calorie intake. So all of his food