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In 2020, eating well has never been easier, but some not-so-good-for-you foods can masquerade as healthy options. Here, dietitian Kate Save reveals what to eat and what to avoid.

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Clinical nutritionist Shelley McKenzie believes that a healthy diet does not involve deprivation. And her recipe for healthy chocolate crackle donuts is the perfect manifestation of that mantra. Just try to stop at one... 

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While #SaveOurChildren seems like a worthy movement to 'spread awareness' of child sex trafficking, it's a clever marketing strategy designed to appeal to readers' empathy. When searched online, however, the phrase will spiral you downwards into the far-right conspiracy theories of QAnon. We take a deep dive into this wild world of disinformation with roots dating back to the 1980s. 

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Scientists measure the propulsive force of water polo players executing highly efficient 'eggbeater' kicks, paving the way to improved sports performance and new undersea transportation methods.

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Researchers show that the wives of men with major cardiovascular disease risk factors, namely hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia, are more prone to suffer from the same disorders.

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Research shows that COVID-19 has severely affected people's daily emotional lives and mental health.

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Researchers have developed biosensors that use nanoengineered porous gold which more effectively detect early signs of disease, potentially improving patient outcomes.

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Most adults with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are not at increased risk of hospitalization from COVID-19 due to medications used to dampen their altered immune system, the cause of their disease.

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Research suggests that the increased use of antibiotics in the treatment of COVID-19 patients could be placing an additional burden on waste water treatment works, particularly those serving large or emergency hospitals.

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Teleoperated surgical robots are becoming commonplace in operating rooms, but many are massive (sometimes taking up an entire room) and difficult to manipulate. Medical researchers and engineers have now created the mini-RCM, a surgical robot the size of a tennis ball that weighs as much as a penny, and performed significantly better than manually operated tools in delicate mock-surgical procedures.

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Women who are pregnant or trying to conceive should be advised to avoid caffeine because the evidence suggests that maternal caffeine consumption is associated with negative pregnancy outcomes and that there is no safe level of consumption, finds an analysis of observational studies.

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Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 who had a combination of high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes were over three times more likely to die from the disease, according to a new study.

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Women who are pregnant or trying to conceive should be advised to avoid caffeine because the evidence suggests that maternal caffeine consumption is associated with negative pregnancy outcomes and that there is no safe level of consumption, finds an analysis of observational studies.

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New research finds that while social distancing is an effective preventative measure in the fight against COVID-19, there are significant variations being observed in how and why individuals follow the restrictions in South Korea, North American and Kuwait.

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This Mercury Awareness Week we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Consumers for Dental Choice, the nonprofit advocacy wing of the mercury-free dentistry movement. It is also our 10th Mercury Awareness Week, during which we step forward to educate the public and empower dentists to choose mercury-free dentistry, and when I put my resources to support Charlie Brown and his team by matching every dollar you donate.

Thanks to your donations, Consumers for Dental Choice has gone a long way toward taking mercury-free dentistry from dream to reality. I ask that you continue your support by donating at ToxicTeeth.org, and I will double your gift all of this week, August 23 to 29, 2020 (up to $150,000). So, here's your chance to double your impact for mercury-free dentistry! 

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Together, we can finish making the dream of mercury-free dentistry a reality, building on Consumers for Dental Choice's track record of victories in the states, at the federal level and worldwide.

Supporting Mercury-Free Dentists, Protecting Patients' Rights

When Consumers for Dental Choice started, mercury-free dentists were under attack by their state dental boards. These boards were stacked with pro-mercury dentists recommended for the appointment by pro-mercury dental associations. And of course, the pro-mercury dentists had a strong interest in stripping their mercury-free dentist competition of their licenses — and that is just what they did.

So, Consumers for Dental Choice challenged those tyrannical dental boards — and won. Charlie Brown, who was twice elected Attorney General of West Virginia, struck down the boards' gag rule that prevented dentists from advising, advocating and advertising mercury-free dentistry. Not only did he block boards from taking dental licenses, but he even won back dental licenses in California and Iowa.

Then Consumers for Dental Choice went on the offensive. This nonprofit group succeeded in getting mercury-free dentists appointed or reappointed to dental boards in California, Minnesota and Washington state.

And then it got several states — Maine, Connecticut, California and New Hampshire, as well as the city of Philadelphia — to pass laws that require dentists to distribute fact sheets telling patients that amalgam is made of mercury and that non-mercury alternatives are available.

When the California dental board refused to produce a fact sheet as required by the law, Consumers for Dental Choice helped get the board disbanded. A new dental board, one that would follow the law requiring it to develop a fact sheet, was appointed. Now Consumers for Dental Choice has returned to the state with a vengeance — turning the tables on state dental boards:

US Regulators Now Engaging Mercury-Free Dentistry Movement

Armed with its victories at the state level, Consumers for Dental Choice took on the federal government. For three decades, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had been dodging its duty to classify — that is, issue a rule for — amalgam. Consumers for Dental Choice took action.

After assembling plaintiffs, Consumers for Dental Choice sued the FDA to classify amalgam in 2008. The judge agreed and told the FDA to sit down with Consumers for Dental Choice to determine a deadline.

FDA was compelled to commit to classifying amalgam by July 2009. But when July 2009 came around it was clear the FDA had not considered the science in its abysmal rule. Now Consumers for Dental Choice has convinced FDA to re-open its rule, as I will detail in another article coming on August 27, 2020.

Teaming with other environmental groups, Consumers for Dental Choice challenged the EPA to require pro-mercury dentists to install and maintain amalgam separators, a device that can capture some of amalgam's mercury before it enters wastewater. After multiple meetings, a congressional hearing and petitions, EPA finally issued a separator rule.

Consumers for Dental Choice didn't stop with these federal regulators. It went to the State Department, calling for the U.S. government to take a stand for mercury-free dentistry at the negotiations for the mercury treaty that would come to be known as the Minamata Convention on Mercury. In the end, the U.S. government became a party to the Minamata Convention, supporting this treaty's required reduction of amalgam use.

In these ways, Consumers for Dental Choice took the federal government from doing nothing to having to face the amalgam issue head-on.

Amalgam Bans and Restrictions Now a Worldwide Phenomenon

Consumers for Dental Choice launched its international campaign in 2010 by establishing the World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry, a coalition of environmental, patient and dental organizations dedicated to phasing out amalgam use. At that time, only two countries had banned amalgam use: Sweden and Norway. And no one thought other countries — especially developing countries — could replicate this success.

But Consumers for Dental Choice dug in, and the coalition it assembled dug in. They ignited campaigns around the world — including workshops, stakeholder meetings, conferences with government officials, written submissions, petitions, grassroots organizing and outreach to dental schools, dental associations and dental professionals.  

All of that work paid off, and now amalgam bans and restrictions are more and more common all over the world. Check out the video at the top of the article to learn more about these victories, including these highlights:

European Union — The European Union has banned amalgam use in children under age 15, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers since July 2018. In 2019, Finland, Ireland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic all announced plans to phase out amalgam use. Additionally, New Caledonia, a French territory, banned all dental amalgam use in September 2019.

Bangladesh — The Bangladesh Army stopped buying dental amalgam in January 2018, a decision that circulated to all forces including the Army, Navy, Air Force and Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) — about 1.5 million persons under treatment, including the families of military personnel.

Nigeria — In its Minamata Convention on Mercury Initial Assessment Report, Nigeria ranked phasing down amalgam use as its second priority for action and announced its plan of "amalgam use discontinued for vulnerable populations." The federal government developed a patient brochure to be made available at dental clinics, dental schools and hospitals. It advised that amalgam "is not recommended for children and pregnant women" and that it "requires removal of more health tooth structure." It also urges patients to help reduce amalgam use by "choosing a mercury-free filling like composite resin or glass ionomer."

Vietnam — In 2019, the Ministry of Health's Health Service Administration Department advised dental offices to stop using amalgam for children under 15, pregnant women and lactating women by April 1, 2019. It further called for a roadmap to stop using amalgam in dentistry.

Suriname — After determining that "mercury amalgam is practically no longer used in Surinamese dentistry," the Surinamese government announced its plan to "completely ban" the use of mercury amalgam.

Pakistan — In 2018, the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) in Pakistan issued an advisory note directing that "all Health workers in the dentistry unit of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (Pakistan) are requested to restrict and do not prefer mercury dental fillings for children below the age of 15 years in KPK to safeguard their health at their very early age."

Mauritius — A decade ago, the Ministry of Health and Quality of Life made the decision to phase out the use of amalgam for pregnant women and children under 10 years old. Since then, there has been a significant reduction in the number of school children receiving amalgam fillings.

Indonesia — By 2014, Indonesia had updated its national health insurance system to include composite and glass ionomer fillings only — and exclude amalgam from its national health insurance program. Indonesia is the world's fourth largest country in population.

Moldova — In 2019, the Moldovan parliament passed a law to prohibit the production, placing on the market and use of mercury and its compounds in dental amalgam. In this European nation, amalgam use has ended entirely.

Nepal — In 2019, Nepal announced that it is phasing out dental amalgam use in two steps. As explained by Nepal's Ministry of Health and Population, it has made the decision to implement a "Complete ban [on] the use of mercury dental amalgam in pregnant and breastfeeding women and children below 15 years." It then phases out amalgam on a five-year timetable.

Tanzania — In 2020, Tanzania's Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children adopted guidelines that will end amalgam use for children and for women of childbearing age: "All women of child-bearing age indicated for restorative care will be receiving mercury-free restorations by 2023 at all levels of oral health care … All children indicated for restorative care will be receiving mercury-free restorations by 2023 at all levels of oral health care."

Philippines — In 2020, the Philippines Department of Health signed an administrative order that phases out dental amalgam in the Philippines in three years. It immediately bans amalgam use in pregnant women, children under the age of 14, breastfeeding mothers and persons with compromised renal and immune systems.

With Consumers for Dental Choice's help, the number of countries banning and restricting amalgam use has grown exponentially, especially in the past few years as even developing countries are successfully phasing out and restricting amalgam use. Now Consumers for Dental Choice is building on this international momentum to end amalgam use in North America, too.

Taking Mercury-Free Dentistry From Dream to Reality

Consumers for Dental Choice has taken the dream of mercury-free dentistry a long way — and you can help this effective advocacy organization finish making it a reality for all people, everywhere.

Will you consider a donation to this 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to advocating mercury-free dentistry? I will match all donations during Mercury-Free Dentistry Week (August 23 to 29, 2020) up to $150,000. Donations are tax-deductible and can be made online at ToxicTeeth.org. Checks can be mailed to:

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And remember, you don't need to wait to make mercury-free dentistry a reality for you and your children — you can choose a mercury-free dentist right now. Check out Consumers for Dental Choice's listing of mercury-free dentists now.

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Late in May 2020, media producer Mikki Willis released the first part of his documentary “Plandemic,” featuring Judy Mikovits, Ph.D., a cellular and molecular biologist¹ whose research revealed many vaccines are contaminated with gammaretroviruses, due to the viruses being grown in contaminated animal cell lines. The 26-minute film was banned on every social media platform after going viral.² August 18, 2020, Part 2, titled “Plandemic — Indoctornation,” was released.

Plandemic — Indoctornation

Part 2 is a full-length feature, revealing the driving force behind the vaccine agenda. It looks at the roles of the World Health Organization, Bill Gates, Tedros Adhanom, Dr. Anthony Fauci, mainstream media, Silicon Valley tech giants, Big Pharma and many others, connecting the dots between them. Willis interviews a variety of individuals, including:

Activist and journalist Theo Wilson

Researcher Dr. Aaron Lewis

Board-certified primary care physician Dr. Jeff Barke

Attorney, science teacher and author Kent Heckenlively

Sherri Tenpenny, D.O.

Dr. Rashid Buttar, medical director for the Centers for Advanced Medicine

Author Curtis Cost

Attorney David J. Follin

Author and winner of the Doctors Who Rock Truth in Journalism Award 2017, Erin Elizabeth

NJ state representative Jamel C. Holley

Dr. Colin Gonsalves, senior counsel, Supreme Court of India

Legal researcher Travis Middleton

Mary Holland, vice chair and general counsel for the Children’s Health Defense

Educator and activist Peggy Hall

Kevin Jenkins, CEO of Urban Global Health Alliance

Professor John Oller, researcher in theoretical and experimental biosemiotics

Engineer and Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies

Dr. George Zabrecky, physician, medical educator and researcher

Dr. Pamela Popper, president of Wellness Forum Health

Scientist Denis Rancourt, Ph.D.

Dr. Meryl Nass, physician, researcher and writer

Professor Dolores J. Cahill, Ph.D., a molecular biologist and immunologist

Professor Luc Montagnier, a Nobel Laureate, medical researcher and virologist

Free supplemental footage, including a follow-up interview with Mikovits, as well as links to additional resources provided by all of the interviewees are supposed to be available on the film’s website, plandemicseries.com.

Event 201

The film starts out by reviewing Event 201, a pandemic preparedness simulation hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in October 2019 — 10 weeks before the COVID-19 outbreak first began in Wuhan.

This scripted tabletop exercise included everything we now see playing out in real time, in the real world, from PPE shortages, lockdowns and removal of civil liberties to mandated vaccination campaigns, riots, economic turmoil and the breakdown of social cohesion. A highlight reel of the predictions put forth during this event is included in the documentary.

At the time, they spent a great deal of time discussing ways to limit and counter the spread of expected “misinformation” about the pandemic and the vaccines that would have to be developed. In addition to outright censorship, their plan included the use of “soft power,” a term referring to stealth influencing using celebrities and other social media influencers.

I discussed this in “The PR Firm Behind WHO’s Celeb Endorsements.” Just as in real life, one of the pieces of “misinformation” that had to be countered was rumors that the virus had been created and released from a bioweapons laboratory.

Operation Mockingbird Never Ended, It Just Got Privatized

The film also reveals how SARS-CoV-2 has been turned into a profit center, the possible origins of SARS-CoV-2, and how Silicon Valley tech giants are controlling the narrative, pushing fearmongering and censoring differing views.

What we’re seeing is straight out of the Operation Mockingbird playbook, a clandestine CIA media influencing campaign launched in the 1950s. During the Cold War, the CIA used it to spread propaganda. It recruited journalists to pen fake stories that disparaged communist ideologies.

Today, they’re doing the complete opposite, promoting radical socialist ideas that support their plan for a technocratic economic system. As revealed in the widely-banned documentary “Shadowgate,”^3,4 a shadow government has built up behind the scenes, and they’re using sophisticated psychological warfare tools against the American public to further their nefarious agenda.

Shockingly, the reason this shadow government — led by government contractors, privatized intelligence companies — are able to manipulate public opinion is because they’ve been illegally siphoning the data collected by the NSA from all Americans, and privatizing it.

All of our personal data, combined with artificial intelligence and so-called localization strategies, allows sophisticated computer programs to predict which action or public message will result in a particular outcome.

We’re in the midst of a social engineering project that poses a serious existential threat to our personal liberty and freedom. We’re all exposed to it daily, and have been for years. It’s just that now it’s become so pervasive, it’s blatantly obvious for anyone willing to see it. As you’d expect, “Plandemic — Indoctornation” also spends some time reviewing the role of Bill Gates and his foundation.

CDC Owns Coronavirus Patents

Willis interviews David E. Martin, Ph.D., a national intelligence analyst and founder of IQ100 Index, which developed linguistic genomics, a platform capable of determining the intent of communications. According to Martin, in 1999, IBM digitized 1 million U.S. patents, which allowed his company to conduct a review.

Using linguistic genomics technology, Martin made the “horrific assessment” that one-third of all patents filed in the U.S. were functional forgeries, meaning that “while they had linguistic variations, they covered the same subject matter.” In 1999, patents for coronavirus also started to appear, “and thus began the rabbit trail,” Martin says. 

In 2003, Asia experienced an outbreak of SARS. Almost immediately, scientists began racing to patent the virus. Ultimately, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention nabbed ownership of SARS-CoV (the virus responsible for SARS) isolated from humans.

The CDC actually owns the entire genetic content of that SARS virus. It’s patented under U.S. patent 7776521. They also own patents for detection methods, and for a kit to measure the virus.

U.S. patent 7279327,⁵ filed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, describes methods for producing recombinant coronaviruses. Ralph Baric, Ph.D., a professor of microbiology and immunology who is famous for his chimeric coronavirus research, is listed as one of the three inventors, along with Kristopher Curtis and Boyd Yount.

According to Martin, Fauci, Baric and the CDC “are at the hub” of the COVID-19 story. “In 2002, coronaviruses were recognized as an exploitable mechanism for both good and ill,” Martin says, and “Between 2003 and 2017, they [Fauci, Baric and CDC] controlled 100% of the cash flow to build the empire around the industrial complex of coronavirus.”

CDC Has Broken the Law, One Way or Another

Now, here’s the key take-home message Martin delivers. There’s a distinct problem with the CDC’s patent on SARS-CoV isolated from humans, because, by law, naturally occurring DNA segments are prohibited from being patented.

The law clearly states that such segments are “not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated.” So, either SARS-CoV was manmade, which would render the patent legal, or it’s natural, thus rendering the patent on it illegal.

However, if the virus was manufactured, then it was created in violation of biological weapons treaties and laws. This includes the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, passed unanimously by both houses of Congress and signed into law by George Bush Sr., which states:⁶

“Whoever knowingly develops, produces, stockpiles, transfers, acquires, retains, or possesses any biological agent, toxin, or delivery system for use as a weapon, or knowingly assists a foreign state or any organization to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both. There is extraterritorial Federal jurisdiction over an offense under this section committed by or against a national of the United States.”

So, as noted by Martin, regardless of which scenario turns out to be true, the CDC has broken the law one way or another, either by violating biological weapons laws, or by filing an illegal patent. Even more egregious, May 14, 2007, the CDC filed a petition with the patent office to keep their coronavirus patent confidential.

Now, because the CDC owns the patent on SARS-CoV, it has control over who had the ability to make inquiries into the coronavirus, Martin notes. Unless authorized, you cannot look at the virus, you cannot measure it or make tests for it, since they own the entire genome and all the rest.

“By obtaining the patents that restrained anyone from using it, they had the means, the motive, and most of all, they had the monetary gain from turning coronavirus from a pathogen to a profit,” Martin says.

Dangerous Gain-of-Function Research Was Permitted

Martin goes on to describe events occurring between 2012 and 2013. At that time, the National Institutes of Health decided to take another look at gain-of-function research, ultimately deciding that gain-of-function research on coronavirus was too risky to continue.

This led to the suspension of funding of such research in 2013. That included funding flowing into Harvard, Emery and University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. However, while the NIH had moral and even legal reasons for suspending such research, they made the funding pause voluntary, not mandatory.

Then, in 2014, when the push-back against gain-of-function research into coronaviruses grew further, the NIH — under the leadership of Fauci — offshored that research to — you guessed it — the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

However, as detailed by Martin, the funding was not sent in a straight-forward way. Instead, it was funneled through front organizations such as the EcoHealth Alliance, led by its president, Peter Daszak, whose research, according to the EchoHealth Alliance website, “includes identifying the bat origin of SARS.”⁷

Between 2014 and 2019, EcoHealth Alliance received a long list of grants from the NIH to study “the risk of bat coronavirus emergence.” EcoHealth Alliance then subcontracted that work to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. So, in the end, the U.S. could deny culpability, blaming the outbreak on China when, in fact, it was American research that had been outsourced.

Interestingly, in late-breaking news August 19, 2020, The Wall Street Journal⁸ reported that the NIH had notified EcoHealth that it wants “a sample of the new coronavirus that the Wuhan researchers used to determine its genetic sequence,” along with study details and other information.

Additionally, the NIH demanded that EcoHealth “arrange for an inspection of the Wuhan Institute of Virology by an outside team that would examine the facility’s lab and records ‘with specific attention to addressing the question of whether WIV staff had SARS-CoV-2 in their possession prior to December 2019.’”

The problem, Martin notes in “Indoctornation,” is that while the evidence is staring us right in the face, we’re told that so-called “fact-checkers” have a transcendent view of the situation, and they are the ultimate arbiters of truth. As a result, we have this very strange situation where facts and logic are being steamrolled and lambasted as good old-fashioned heresy.

Will Truth Prevail?

The film goes on to interview many other experts, many of whom are convinced the evidence points to SARS-CoV-2 being a manmade virus. Like Plandemic Part 1, Part 2 is well worth your time. As noted by Willis, in today’s fast-paced world, few have the time to do the necessary research to unveil what’s really going on.

The evidence is there, but you have to put it together. This is why documentaries such as “Plandemic” and “Shadowgate” are so useful. They weave the dots together so that you can see a fuller, more complete picture. Unfortunately, the picture at present is grim.

Yet, we must face it because it’s not going away or resolving in the near future. It is important to understand that we are all being subjected to a massive propaganda campaign to move us toward a very specific technocratic agenda. It is only by seeking alternative views that we can begin to understand the truth.

In the case of coronavirus, it should be clear that gain-of-function research is a dangerous game that should not be permitted. By giving researchers the go-ahead to continue this kind of research, even as the NIH publicly “paused” funding for it, the NIH failed to uphold its moral and legal responsibilities.

It’s also clear that the CDC has engaged in illegal activities relating to the patenting of the virus, and that they had ample motive and means to profit from a coronavirus pandemic. It’s hard to imagine a more corrupt system than what we currently have. The question is: When will something be done about it?

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